综合排名指标很容易被操纵。其实最管用的是US News同行评价Peer Assessment Ranking

PA Ranking 对职业发展有比较大的指导作用。毕竟声誉就是口口相传的印象和同行心目中的评价, 而不是一堆数字.

在这里，很多被综合排名低估，但在社会和业界大显身手的学校浮上台面。比如Berkely, UCLA， UT，Michigan等.  比如Michigan在业界基本视为小藤水准.

无疑H,M,S是无法撼动三大校. 也可以说目前全球最佳三校. 同时，俗称5大藤HYPSM确实与其他学校拉开了一段距离.

世界大学六大超级品牌Elite 6 - Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge + UC Berkeley

(data is from 2013, but still relevant).

表中上下0.1，基本上可看成peer school

 

 

School name (state)	U.S. News National Universities rank	Undergraduate academic peer assessment score	Undergraduate academic peer assessment rank
Harvard University (MA)	1	4.9	1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	4.9	1
Stanford University (CA)	6	4.9	1
Princeton University (NJ)	1	4.8	4
Yale University (CT)	3	4.8	4
University of California--Berkeley	21	4.7	6
Columbia University (NY)	4	4.6	7
University of Chicago	4	4.6	7
California Institute of Technology	10	4.6	7
Johns Hopkins University (MD)	13	4.6	7
Cornell University (NY)	15	4.6	7
Duke University (NC)	8	4.5	12
University of Pennsylvania	8	4.4	13
Dartmouth College (NH)	10	4.4	13
Northwestern University (IL)	12	4.4	13
Brown University (RI)	15	4.4	13
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	29	4.4	13
University of Virginia	24	4.3	18
Carnegie Mellon University (PA)	23	4.2	19
University of California--Los Angeles	24	4.2	19
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill	30	4.2	19
Washington University in St. Louis	14	4.1	22
Vanderbilt University (TN)	17	4.1	22
Georgetown University (DC)	21	4.1	22
Georgia Institute of Technology	36	4.1	22
University of Wisconsin--Madison	41	4.1	22
University of Texas--Austin	46	4.1	22