1.top 100 American universities include Auburn University and loyola university chicago, which are equivalent to Donghua University and University of Science and Technology Beijing in China.
2. Auburn University, founded in 1856, is the largest university in Alabama and the first traditional white university in the state to admit black students. It is one of the top 100 American traditional universities.
As one of the century-old universities in the southern United States, Auburn University has more than 300,000 alumni networks and nearly 25 students.
Today, many outstanding alumni are active in all walks of life, including Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, jimmy wales, founder of Wikipedia, Don Logan, a media tycoon and former CEO of time warner Inc., and so on.
The school has 12 colleges, covering more than 140 majors, and provides the only national public support projects in many fields such as agriculture, forestry, architecture, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, especially in literature, mathematics, commerce, education and engineering. Auburn University has its own civil airport, and it is also one of the few universities in the United States that have been granted land, sea and space by the government for scientific research. In addition, Auburn University has excellent sports performance, and its tigers have dominated NCAA venues many times.
Loyola university chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The school was founded on 1870. It is a top university that can keep pace with the University of Chicago and Northwest University. Its alumni are all over the political and business circles in the United States, and many heads of state or important politicians from all over the world are alumni of this school. Such as: william daley: President Obama's White House Chief of Staff, former US Secretary of Commerce (under President Bill Clinton); Susan rolston: Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor.
The United States 60-80 is about equal to Tsinghua Peking University, even higher than Peking University Tsinghua.
Why the undergraduate courses of top universities in the United States are so much better than those in China;
1. The teaching of the top universities in the United States is a typical dumbbell-shaped structure, which attaches great importance to undergraduates and doctoral students at both ends and relatively pays little attention to the master's degree in the middle. Therefore, it is normal for a large number of returnees who have studied for a master's degree for one year to be mediocre after returning to China-the original gold content is limited. Between undergraduates and doctoral students, the balance is tilted towards undergraduates. Top private universities pay more attention to undergraduate education, which is their housekeeping capital.
Frankly speaking, until now, I haven't figured out why the top universities in the United States attach so much importance to undergraduate education, not just paying lip service, but investing a lot of real money. In terms of resource allocation, when the development and interests of graduate students conflict with undergraduates, there is no doubt that graduate students should make way for undergraduates; When there is conflict between scientific research and undergraduate teaching, scientific research should undoubtedly give way to undergraduate teaching. Of course, this state is not innate, and it has experienced fierce debates and repetitions in the process of university development. However, few people today agree with this model and culture and are willing to follow and implement it in practice.
3. First of all, from the admission stage, strictly control the admission level. Almost every top university attaches great importance to enrollment. The position of the director of the Admissions Office is very high, and sometimes he is the third person after the principal and the provost, and he has the final decision on whether to admit every student. They often work in this position for a long time, thus accumulating extremely rich experience in screening students-William fitzsimmons, director of the Admissions Office of Harvard University, has worked for 40 years in one breath. For 40 years, he has only one job every day, that is, reading the application materials of students from all over the world. Not only Harvard, but also the admissions directors of many universities have served for more than ten years.
4. In addition, the university fully guarantees the personnel and funds of the admissions department, and the investment is huge; The enrollment process is extremely complicated and even cumbersome. Every student who is finally admitted will go through several rounds of testing and evaluation before receiving the admission notice.
In the past, we had a misunderstanding about the selection and training of talents in American universities-"lenient entry and strict exit". It seems much easier for American students to go to college than for China students to take the college entrance examination. In fact, on the contrary, if American students want to enter the top universities, the competition is fierce and the difficulty is as great as that of China students admitted to Tsinghua of Peking University. The doors of the top universities in the United States are not "wide" at all, but extremely "strict".