除了工程/CS等比較職業導向的一些硬專業之外，由於本科教育仍以通識教育為
主旨，學校的整體學術聲譽是考慮選校的一個重要指標。
US NEWS的同行評價打分(Peer Assessment Score)是這方麵衡量的一個很好參考。
對比2013和2019(最新) 的數據，俺發現CMU, UCLA, GA Tech打分都有上升，這與
我們觀察到近年這幾校很火的現象相吻合。
值得指出的是，此表上一些州大表現不俗。說明好州大也是一個很好的上學選擇。
如果是本州，學費低，更加值得考慮。
前15，20學校每年變化其實都不大。這些學校的優勢是N年積累，很牢固。
[以下分線和評語為本人所加，一家之言]
Top 50 U.S. Schools Ranked by US NewsPeer Assessment Score (Data 9/2019 - latest available)
-----------1: HYPSM: Stellar reputation all cross(The T5) --------------------
1. Harvard University 4.9
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.9
1. Princeton University 4.9
1. Stanford University 4.9
5. Yale University 4.8
--------2: (Lower Ivy Equivalent) Very prestigious schools with wide strengths(Approx. T15) -------
6. California Institute of Technology 4.7
6. Columbia University 4.7
6. Johns Hopkins University 4.7
6. University of California-Berkeley 4.7
10. Cornell University 4.6
10. University of Chicago 4.6
10. University of Pennsylvania 4.6
13. Brown University 4.5
13. Duke University 4.5
13. Northwestern University 4.5
13. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4.5
17. Dartmouth College 4.4
------3:Prestigious schools with noted areas of specialty and very high overall quality (Approx. T30)-----
18. Carnegie Mellon University 4.3
18. Georgia Institute of Technology 4.3
18. University of California-Los Angeles 4.3
18. Vanderbilt University 4.3
22. Georgetown University 4.2
22. Rice University 4.2
22. University of Notre Dame 4.2
22. University of Virginia 4.2
26. Emory University 4.1
26. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 4.1
26. University of Texas-Austin 4.1
26. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4.1
26. Washington University-St Louis 4.1
31. New York University 4.0
------------4:Powerful academic centers with more regional influences(T50) ----------------------
32. University of California-Davis 3.9
33. University of California-San Diego 3.9
33. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 3.9
33. University of Southern California 3.9
33. University of Washington 3.9
3.7 College of William and Mary 3.8
37. Ohio State University 3.8
37. Purdue University-West Lafayette 3.8
37. Tufts University 3.8
37. University of California-Irvine 3.8
37. University of Florida 3.8
43. Boston College 3.7
43. Boston University 3.7
43. Case Western Reserve University 3.7
43. Indiana University-Bloomington 3.7
43. Pennsylvania State University-University Park 3.7
43. Texas A&M University-College Station 3.7
43. University of Maryland-College Park 3.7
43. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 3.7
