寒冷的12月，是留学申请最热的季节。面对着一波又一波死线的涌来，不知有多少孩子会迷失在国外大学的海洋里，窒息，迷目。而在这个节骨眼上，精选学校又成为当务之急。
学校怎么选？最简单最粗暴的方法，无非是看排名。可是，USNews，TIMES，各种专业排名让人眼花缭乱……到底该怎么看？又成为一门学问。
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在傻白甜稀缺的留学群落 中，相信已经没有人单纯地认为排名较高的学校就一定更好。否则，在最新的TIMES世界大学排名中，北京大学名列42。为什么还有那 么多北京大学的学生要放弃校内的保研名额，去申请排在它后面的威斯康辛、北卡、南加州、曼彻斯特、波士顿、明尼苏达…………
而且选择学校，也绝非简单地将学校排名和自己的成绩（别管是GPA还是GRE）排名大致一匹配，就可以喜结良缘。圣母大学世界排名108，约克大学世界排名131，还真不是国内顶尖大学排名NO.1可以说去就去的地方。
学校排名
学校排名，是综合了学术、教育和硬件各方面的一个量化比较。仅从学术质量的角度来看，分专业和学科的排名，也比综合排名靠谱。因此，看排名，一定要结合综合排名和专业排名一起看。
专业排名
专业排名高的，一般综合排名不会低，可以信赖；综合排名高的，却很可能在专业排名上很差。向往顶级教育水平的同学，一定要警惕误入英美的“北大工学院”或“清华心理学系”。
2016年US News美国大学综合排名！
官方最新排名：2016年 |
| #Rank | School | Location |
| #1 | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ |
| #2 | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| #3 | Yale University | New Haven, CT |
| #4 | Columbia University | New York, NY |
| #4 | Stanford University | Stanford, CA |
| #4 | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| #7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA |
| #8 | Duke University | Durham, NC |
| #9 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA |
| #10Tie | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA |
| #10Tie | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD |
| #12Tie | Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH |
| #12Tie | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL |
| #14 | Brown University | Providence, RI |
| #15Tie | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY |
| #15Tie | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN |
| #15Tie | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO |
| #18Tie | Rice University | Houston, TX |
| #18Tie | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN |
| #20 | University of California—Berkeley | Berkeley, CA |
| #21Tie | Emory University | Atlanta, GA |
| #21Tie | Georgetown University | Washington, DC |
| #23Tie | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA |
| #23Tie | University of California—Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA |
| #23Tie | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA |
| #26 | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA |
| #27Tie | Tufts University | Medford, MA |
| #27Tie | Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem, NC |
| #29 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI |
| #30Tie | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA |
| #30Tie | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC |
| #32 | New York University | New York, NY |
| #33 | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY |
| #34Tie | Brandeis University | Waltham, MA |
| #34Tie | College of William and Mary | Williamsburg, VA |
| #36 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA |
| #37Tie | Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH |
| #37Tie | University of California—Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA |
| #39Tie | University of California—Irvine | Irvine, CA |
| #39Tie | University of California—San Diego | La Jolla, CA |
| #41Tie | Boston University | Boston, MA |
| #41Tie | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| #41Tie | Tulane University | New Orleans, LA |
| #41Tie | University of California—Davis | Davis, CA |
| #41Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign | Champaign, IL |
| #41Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison | Madison, WI |
| #47Tie | Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA |
| #47Tie | Northeastern University | Boston, MA |
| #47Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park | University Park, PA |
| #47Tie | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL |
| #51 | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL |
| #52Tie | Ohio State University—Columbus | Columbus, OH |
| #52Tie | Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA |
| #52Tie | University of Texas—Austin | Austin, TX |
| #52Tie | University of Washington | Seattle, WA |
| #52Tie | Yeshiva University | New York, NY |
| #57Tie | George Washington University | Washington, DC |
| #57Tie | University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT |
| #57Tie | University of Maryland—College Park | College Park, MD |
| #57Tie | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA |
| #61Tie | Clemson University | Clemson, SC |
| #61Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette | West Lafayette, IN |
| #61Tie | Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX |
| #61Tie | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY |
| #61Tie | University of Georgia | Athens, GA |
| #66Tie | Brigham Young University—Provo | Provo, UT |
| #66Tie | Fordham University | New York, NY |
| #66Tie | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA |
| #69 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN |
| #70Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station | College Station, TX |
| #70Tie | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA |
| #72Tie | American University | Washington, DC |
| #72Tie | Baylor University | Waco, TX |
| #72Tie | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick | Piscataway, NJ |
| #75Tie | Clark University | Worcester, MA |
| #75Tie | Colorado School of Mines | Golden, CO |
| #75Tie | Indiana University—Bloomington | Bloomington, IN |
| #75Tie | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI |
| #75Tie | Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ |
| #75Tie | University of Delaware | Newark, DE |
| #75Tie | University of Massachusetts—Amherst | Amherst, MA |
| #82Tie | Miami University—Oxford | Oxford, OH |
| #82Tie | Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX |
