2013福布斯全美大學排名
美國《福布斯》雜誌（Forbes）2013年7月24日公佈了全美大學排名，加州的斯坦福大學和名不見經傳的波莫納學院名列第一和第二。這是《福布斯》連續六年做出這項評比以來，首度出現前兩名學校都落在美國西海岸的排名結果。
《福布斯》雜誌委託美國大學學費與績效中心（Center for College
Affordability and Productivity）評量全美650所學院和大學。《福布斯》稱，他們編制榜單時考慮的因素都是即將入學的學子們和他們的家庭最想知道的。該項評比標準包含：學生對課程的滿意度、四年內畢業的可能性、畢業後受聘僱的潛能以及學費等。
斯坦福大學（Stanford University）位於北加州矽谷地區，屬於教學研究型大學。由於大一生續讀率和學生入職場起薪皆高，讓該校從去年的第三名躍居榜首。斯坦福大學目前有1.9萬名學生，每年學費約為5.8萬美元。
規模較小的波莫納學院（Pomona College）今年排名第二，目前只有約1,600名學生，每年學費約5.7萬美元。波莫納學院位於洛杉磯以東約50公里，僅有大學部。傑出校友包括已故的迪斯尼資深總裁迪斯尼（Roy Disney）、鄉村音樂歌手克里斯多佛森（Kris Kristofferson）、藝術家柏登（Chris Burden）等人。該學院從去年的第九名一躍成為第二名，超越了哈佛大學、耶魯大學等名校。
去年位於榜首的普林斯頓大學（Princeton University）今年名列第三，耶魯大學（Yale University）和哥倫比亞大學（Columbia
University）分列第四、第五名。這三所學校皆位於美東。第六至第十分別是：史瓦摩爾學院、美國軍事學院、哈佛大學、威廉姆斯學院與麻省理工學院。
附錄： 2013《福布斯》美國大學排行榜（前20名）
America's Top Colleges 2013
Do college rankings matter? With the price of a four-year education approaching a quarter million dollars, it’s a no-brainer.
When future historians of U.S. higher education look back to when the ground really began to shake, they may well pinpoint 2013. They’ll see disruption in curriculum (towards STEM majors and away from traditional liberal arts) and delivery (from campus to online). They’ll track the problems of runaway tuition costs and student loan debt, shrinking state funding and class enrollment, and a humbling job market for most graduates. But they’ll also single out the rise of non-Ivy League, West Coast colleges.
For the first time, the FORBES Top Colleges ranking has two non-Ivies at the top: Stanford University (No. 1) and Pomona College (No. 2). It is also the first time that two California schools take the gold and silver. The best state school in America is University of California, Berkeley at No. 22. Here is what makes this shift so significant: It may splinter the grip of the East Coast Establishment colleges and open up a more diverse, accessible portfolio of best schools for students.
The rapidly changing landscape in higher education is the theme of this year’s Top Colleges. For the sixth year, FORBES has partnered exclusively with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity(CCAP). What sets our calculation of 650 colleges and universities apart from other rankings is our firm belief in “output” over “input.” We’re not all that interested in what gets a student into college, like our peers who focus heavily on selectivity metrics such as high school class rank and SAT scores. Our sights are set directly on ROI: What are students getting out of college. (See CCAP’s full methodology here.)
We look at factors that directly concern today’s incoming students (and their families) who will be footing a bill which has multiplied into the six figures: Will my classes be interesting? Is it likely I will graduate in four years? Will I incur a ton of debt getting my degree? And once I get out of school, will I get a good job and be a leader in my chosen profession? We pointedly ignore any metrics that would encourage schools to engage in wasteful spending.
Here, a quick peek at Top Colleges 2013:
Go West, young student: For the first time in the six years FORBES has produced this list, the top two schools are on the Pacific Coast. Stanford University takes the gold medal this year and silver goes to Pomona College. University of California, Berkeley leads the pack of state schools at No. 22. All have high retention rates (98%, 99% and 96%, respectively) and their graduate’s average starting salaries ($58,200, 49,200 and 52,000, respectively) outpace the $44,259 median income for 2012 college grads, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Not Harvard? Don’t count the Ivies entirely out. To the contrary. The Ivy Leagues do very, very well; all eight make the top 20. Princeton, Yale Universityand Columbia University take Nos. 3 to 5. Harvard is No. 8 this year, dropping from No. 6 in 2012 and 2011, while University of Pennsylvania jumps up six spots to No. 11, Brown University moves up seven to No. 12 and Dartmouth moves up nine to No. 16. But the biggest winner of all is Cornell University, which leaps from No. 51 to No. 19. For millions of students, and not just Americans, Ivy League schools continue to hold unequivocal prestige and value.
Name-brand public schools are on the rise:This year we have nine (including military schools) in the top 50. In 2012 there were eight, which was up from five in 2011. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor makes its first appearance in the top 50 at No. 30. Overall, public schools are doing better, with 23 in the top 100 and 51 in the top 250. This is the flip side to buying the Ivy League’s reputation-at-any-price. Flagship state schools offer an excellent education for much lower tuition bills than their average private counterparts. As more students seek to hold down debt, public colleges and universities can and will be more selective.
On-time graduation: Haverford, Pomona and Swarthmore Colleges take the lead with impressive 91% 4-year graduation rates. At the bottom end of the scale is Colorado’s Metropolitan State College (4%) and Texas Southern University (5%). Graduating on-time translates to less college debt (or family expense) and gets students out into the world sooner. Some schools, including Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., have 0% 4-year graduation rates, but it should be noted that their students work within a 5-year plan, so they can complete “co-ops,” or time off school for internships or employment.
Leaning on loans: Besides valuable degrees, the Ivies gift their students with low loan burdens. Only 9% of Yalies take out college loans for their education; Princeton is at 10% and Harvard at 11%. Ninety-nine percent of students take out loans at Salem College in North Carolina and Trinity International University in Illinois. There are zero student loans for those enrolled in Hillsdale College in Michigan (No. 196) and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut (No. 94).
Going global: Almost all colleges offer opportunities to study abroad but some schools go one or two steps further. Case-Western Reserve (No. 89), for example, is part of the Global E3, which allows engineering students at member universities to attend overseas schools at home institution tuition. College of William and Mary (No. 44) offers a joint degree program with the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. New York University (No. 56), runs comprehensive campuses in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Singapore.
Online classrooms: Learning has gone digital, and the savviest colleges are embracing the inevitable by offering not just courses but actual degrees online. Some of the largest are Penn State (No. 93), UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts’ online education consortium with UMass Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, UMass Medical School and Arizona State University (No. 226), which enrolled over 8,000 fully online students in spring 2013.
MOOCs are multiplying: The best known massive open online courses (MOOCs) were birthed in our top colleges: edX out of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 9); Coursera and Udacity out of Stanford. Now, voila, there’s a stampede of other schools signing up. University of Chicago (No. 14) and the State University of New York system recently signed up with Coursera. San Jose State University (No. 272) aligned with Udacity, to mixed results. EdX has Wellesley (No. 23) and Rice University (No. 33), among many others, on board.
Who’s Up, Who’s Down: It’s a top-model slender difference, but for the first time Princeton lands at No. 3 after long holding the No. 1 or No. 2 spot. Williams College, who has reigned as the top liberal arts college since 2008 — not to mention No. 1 in 2010 and 2011 — drops to No. 9 this year. The biggest mover-shaker was Morehouse College, the only all-male historically black college in the U.S., who jumped 235 spots to No. 285. CUNY, City College rose from No. 369 in 2012 to No. 137 this year. On the other hand, Wisconsin Lutheran College dropped to No. 537 from No. 216 and Thomas Aquinas College is now at No. 415 from No. 111 last year. Of the schools with religious affiliations that moved up, Brigham Young, sponsored by of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went from No. 93 to No. 75. Pepperdine University, led by the Churches of Christ, is now at No. 100 from No. 109 in 2012.
Who’s Up, Who’s Down: It’s a top-model slender difference, but for the first time Princeton lands at No. 3 after long holding the No. 1 or No. 2 spot. Williams College, who has reigned as the top liberal arts college since 2008 — not to mention No. 1 in 2010 and 2011 — drops to No. 9 this year. The biggest mover-shaker was Morehouse College, the only all-male historically black college in the U.S., who jumped 235 spots to No. 285. CUNY, City College rose from No. 369 in 2012 to No. 137 this year. On the other hand, Wisconsin Lutheran College dropped to No. 537 from No. 216 and Thomas Aquinas College is now at No. 415 from No. 111 last year. Of the schools with religious affiliations that moved up, Brigham Young, sponsored by of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went from No. 93 to No. 75. Pepperdine University, led by the Churches of Christ, is now at No. 100 from No. 109 in 2012.
New American Leaders: The real change agent here — felt throughout the list — is our switch from using “Who’s Who” to a newly compiled list of America’s Leaders to determine post-grad success. It’s a far more inclusive catalog that relies on many of FORBES’ franchises (Power Women, 30 Under 30, Midas List) as well as prizewinners in the arts, sciences and more. The end result is a less clubby and more democratic list of people — and colleges — who matter most.
Schools of deception: This year FORBES instituted a new penalty to schools that have falsified data to the U.S. Department of Education, which we depend upon for our calculations. In the past two years, four schools have admitted to lying: Bucknell University, Claremont-McKenna College, Emory University and Iona College. They are being removed from our rankings for two years.
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