"The top 50 universities in the United States" or the top 100 universities usually refer to US News &；; World Report) National University Rankings published every year. US NEWS's evaluation criteria for universities include peer evaluation, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, teacher resources, student selection, alumni donation rate and financial resources. The ranking of US NEWS is commercial, and it will definitely fluctuate every year. A school is 50 this year and may become 44 next year. Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to pester the ranking of American universities.
American universities pay attention to the individualized training of students, and each American university has its own characteristics and professional fields.
For example:
Rensselaer Institute of Technology (1), ranked 44th in American universities, has a good business administration course, but it is not difficult to find out from the name of this school that it is a science and engineering college, which is more suitable for students with good science in high schools.
2. Georgetown University ranks 23rd, but this school is traditionally strong in arts and diplomacy. If you go there to study math or engineering, you might as well go to the University of Michigan, which ranks two places lower.
3. Indiana University -Blooming 2065 438+03 ranked 83rd in the United States, but its Kelly Business School ranked in the top 50 business schools of American universities, 20 10 alumni won the Nobel Prize, and the undergraduate finance major ranked 10, which left some Ivy League universities far behind.
4. The university of Missouri-Columbia ranked 97 in 20 13 and scored 6 1 in TOEFL, which is a very basic and relatively low admission score. However, the enrollment requirement of the School of Journalism and Communication of this school is TOEFL 100, and the average SAT score of freshmen is about 1280 (the full score of reading and mathematics SAT is 1600), and its journalism major is as famous as Columbia University.