生平第一次听说Yale是浮夸大学之鼻祖。我很少在CD上反驳别人,今天破例一次。我引用两个事实来说明:
1) US News and World Report每年对大学本科进行排名,Yale一直是Top 3;
2) 1995年,美国权威国家机构National Research Council对全美所有博士课程进行了一次综合评估(上一次在1983年,下一次预计在2007年举行),请看结果:
The universities with the highest totals of top three rankings in the two categories for the 41 fields studied by the National Research Council were: MIT 34, University of California Berkeley 27, Princeton 19, Stanford 18, Harvard 18, Yale 17, Chicago 14, Michigan 10, Caltech 10, UC San Francisco 7, Cornell 7, Duke 6, Columbia 5, Minnesota 4, Wisconsin 4, Johns Hopkins 3, and Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) 3.
In all the fields, Yale had 12 firsts, compared to MIT with 11; Stanford, 11; Berkeley, 9; Harvard, 8; Caltech, 8; Chicago, 6; Princeton, 5; UC San Diego, 3; Michigan, 3; and UC San Francisco, 3.
我想我不用再多说了,大家自己去判断吧。 |