Harvard Number nulle University in Eyes of Public
Stanford and Yale in second place
by Frank Newport
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- What's the best college or university in the nation? To some degree, it depends on whom you ask.
The eagerly anticipated, yet controversial, rankings of colleges and universities by U.S. News and World Report were released over the weekend. These rankings are based on a complex system that gives points to each college, based on such factors as assessment by presidents, provosts, and deans of admissions at peer institutions, the proportion of freshmen who return to the campus and eventually graduate, faculty resources, SAT/ACT scores of enrolled students, spending per student on instruction, and the alumni giving rate. The reputational component of the system -- which comprises 25% of the final score for a given college -- is based, as noted, on ratings by college professionals, not the general public.
The U.S. News and World Report rankings are split into several different categories, but the on-e to which the news media pay most attention is the category "National Universities –Doctoral," which includes most larger universities.
The final results in this category in this year's U.S. News rankings were as follows: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Duke, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Washington University in St. Louis.
The Public's View (미국국민여론조사결과)
Gallup deals in the public's opinion, and following in this tradition, from time to time Gallup measures what colleges the general public considers to be the best in the nation. This year, respondents to a July Gallup Poll were given the opportunity to name two schools in answer to this question: "All in all, what would you say is the best college or university in the United States?" Respondents were asked to name two.
There is on-e clear winner in the court of public opinion, Harvard, which is mentioned by on-e out of four Americans as their first or second response to this question, more than twice as many "mentions" as are given to any other college.
Based on the combined first and second mentions of the public, 35 schools are mentioned by at least 1% of Americans as the best in the nation, including all eight of the Ivy League schools (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale), and 18 state universities.
About a fourth of the respondents mentioned a college or university other than those named below, which means that there are a wide variety of colleges that are perceived to be the best by on-ly a very small percentage of the population. Additionally, as can be seen, about on-e out of five Americans did not name any college or university.
All in all, what would you say is the best college or university in the United States? (open-ended responses) |
<명문대 순위> |
Best/ Second Best |
|
% |
Harvard University |
24 |
Stanford University |
11 |
Yale University |
11 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
6 |
University of California at Berkeley |
4 |
Notre Dame University |
4 |
Princeton University |
4 |
University of Michigan |
3 |
Duke University |
3 |
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
3 |
University of Texas |
2 |
Texas A&M University |
2 |
Ohio State University |
2 |
University of North Carolina |
2 |
Penn State University |
2 |
University of Pennsylvania (Penn) |
2 |
University of Minnesota |
1 |
Brown University |
1 |
Cornell University |
1 |
University of Virginia |
1 |
Brigham Young University (BYU) |
1 |
University of Tennessee |
1 |
Michigan State University |
1 |
Purdue University |
1 |
University of Iowa |
1 |
Georgetown University |
1 |
University of Arizona |
1 |
University of Southern California (USC) |
1 |
Louisiana State University (LSU) |
1 |
Indiana University |
1 |
University of Washington |
1 |
Columbia University |
1 |
University of Wisconsin |
1 |
Boston University |
1 |
New York University |
1 |
|
|
None |
* |
Other |
36 |
No opinion |
22 | |