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各种大学排名,以凑热闹为主,经不起严谨的推敲。

2010年2月,《美国新闻与世界报道》称北京大学在生命科学与生物医学排全球第19。如果能信几个记者(不管是白人记者、还是中国记者)瞎蒙的结果,我们已经是超过加州理工学院、Duke、普林斯顿的世界一流,可以半夜从梦中笑醒,他们该向我们学习。

上海交通大学的高等教育研究院有一个“世界一流大学研究中心”。

这个中心看起来真把排名作为其最主要(或者最知名)的课题,仔细收集资料,每年更新。如果是作为学术研究,可能对结果如履薄冰,不敢轻易全球发布,而从它热衷炒作来看,其模式更像热衷商业运作:不怕错的被人笑话,而怕没人关心其产品。

8月15日,“世界一流大学研究中心”在交大网站以外独立发布了它 2010年度的世界一流大学学术排名,而且按学科分开列表,煞有介事。

仔细一看,它得出的结果,并不比国外记者的好多少。它列出的表,仍然不能代替懂行专家、代替学生自己了解。  

以为在评价和判断学术相关的优劣,可以有“客观”标准,能够代替主观判断,也许是缘木求鱼?

如果各个学校什么时候真的开始激烈竞争在交大排名榜的位置,就像为了在SCI“名列前茅”一样如火如荼,最直接的后果是加剧急功近利。

而如果学生、或者学生家长用这些排名来决定到什么学校念本科或者研究生,那就冒着为“误导”做活生生注释的危险。

以生命科学排名来说,一般可能以为学科排名可以给选择研究生学校做参考。但是,如果仔细看,就很难用这个所谓“客观”的排名:因为即使生命科学的全貌,这个表格也有不少出人意料之处,使之失效。

不可思议的是,这个表格把Duke的生物远远排到UIUC后面,Ohio State University排到University of Chicago前面去。

而将分子生物学极强的Princeton大学放到五十开外,需要的不是一般、而是极端的创造性。

每年中国学生申请美国Brandeis研究生的很少,而Brandeis有几个领域非常强,Brandeis的中国毕业生骆利群,现在是Stanford 的教授,而Stanford学生物的中国研究生,几十年来没有一个做了Harvard、Stanford的教授。,但是Brandeis和另外一个有特长的 University of Colorado at Boulder,都不在排名的前100。事实上,如果中国某所大学,在有些领域赶上这两所大学,会是了不起的进步。中国学生喜爱有些领域的到这两所大学也会有很好的收获。

中国学生申请Rockefeller研究生的也不多,而Rockefeller的生物非常强,懂生物医学的人不可能将Rockefeller和 Wisconsin并列。而UC Berkeley不可能出前五,Washington University不会出前十。也不可能将University of Washington排在前四。

自己懂脑筋的学生,会有更好的选择。选研究生的学校,不仅需要了解全貌,最好要了解具体领域。不用这个表格,也不依赖其他排名名单,更好。

各个大学就更不能以这种排名作为目标。否则,为了这种排名,我们都不要追Princeton,而要向U Western Australia看齐。

附:

1)美国新闻和世界报道 世界最好大学,生命科学和生物医学: 

http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-universities/2010/02/25/worlds-best-universities-life-sciences-and-biomedicine.html 

2)上海交通大学世界一流大学研究中心 世界大学生命科学和农业排名

http://www.arwu.org/FieldLIFE2010.jsp   

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2010

World RankInstitution*CountryScore on AlumniScore on AwardScore on HiCiScore on PUBScore on TOPTotal Score
1
Harvard University
100.0 75.1 100.0 100.0 94.2 100.0
2
University of California, San Francisco
0.0 100.0 72.2 63.0 94.9 76.5
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
78.4 94.1 54.3 51.0 96.2 76.3
4
University of Washington
55.5 74.7 51.1 70.9 87.0 72.8
5
Stanford University
0.0 53.7 82.1 62.6 93.5 71.3
6
University of Cambridge
92.0 43.9 47.0 64.4 88.7 69.4
7
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
62.0 76.0 45.3 44.4 97.1 67.8
8
University of Oxford
55.5 43.9 52.6 67.6 87.9 67.7
9
Yale University
62.0 27.7 57.4 62.7 92.5 67.0
10
Columbia University
73.4 54.6 44.2 55.5 90.5 66.5
11
Rockefeller University
48.0 82.0 49.0 32.9 100.0 66.0
11
University of Wisconsin - Madison
55.5 34.0 54.8 70.1 82.9 66.0
13
Cornell University
48.0 19.6 65.5 70.2 82.0 65.6
14
The Johns Hopkins University
62.0 58.8 35.9 63.3 88.8 65.4
15
University of California, San Diego
48.0 0.0 64.9 63.9 89.5 62.6
16
University of California, Berkeley
78.4 0.0 51.1 63.9 90.1 62.3
17
Karolinska Institute
48.0 55.5 44.5 54.3 80.1 61.0
18
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
39.2 53.7 45.3 55.5 79.2 60.1
19
University of Pennsylvania
62.0 0.0 47.0 63.8 91.9 60.0
20
University College London
39.2 27.7 46.5 63.0 85.4 59.9
21
University of California, Davis
0.0 0.0 66.5 76.4 80.0 58.8
22
University of California, Los Angeles
0.0 39.2 40.7 65.0 87.1 57.1
23
Washington University in St. Louis
27.7 0.0 51.1 58.8 92.6 56.3
24
California Institute of Technology
48.0 60.4 30.4 29.7 97.2 56.1
24
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
27.7 0.0 50.3 66.9 84.3 56.1
26
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
0.0 43.9 40.7 56.5 87.7 55.7
27
McGill University
55.5 0.0 42.6 62.6 82.9 55.5
28
Vanderbilt University
0.0 63.5 27.6 49.6 90.0 54.2
29
Kyoto University
39.2 0.0 48.7 70.5 70.2 54.1
30
University of Zurich
0.0 48.0 36.7 55.5 82.6 53.7
31
The University of Tokyo
0.0 0.0 43.6 84.6 73.4 53.1
32
University of Florida
27.7 0.0 43.6 74.1 69.4 52.3
33
Duke University
0.0 0.0 45.3 61.3 87.8 51.3
34
The University of Western Australia
48.0 38.0 28.1 46.0 77.6 51.1
35
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
39.2 0.0 35.6 64.2 78.0 51.0
36
University of Wageningen
0.0 0.0 50.3 62.5 80.1 50.9
37
University of Basel
39.2 27.7 33.3 39.0 87.5 50.6
38
The University of Edinburgh
39.2 0.0 35.6 51.9 87.7 50.3
39
University of British Columbia
0.0 0.0 43.6 66.9 79.6 50.1
40
University of Pittsburgh
39.2 0.0 33.3 56.5 83.3 49.8
41
New York University
27.7 0.0 41.7 46.3 89.3 49.7
41
The Australian National University
48.0 19.6 35.6 40.0 82.1 49.7
41
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
0.0 0.0 41.1 60.2 87.4 49.7
44
University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester
0.0 53.7 25.1 36.8 93.2 49.4
45
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
27.7 0.0 38.1 52.0 85.1 49.1
46
University of Copenhagen
27.7 0.0 30.8 67.8 73.5 48.3
46
University of Utah
0.0 31.0 38.8 44.2 81.7 48.3
48
Case Western Reserve University
62.0 0.0 28.1 44.0 86.0 48.2
48
University of Melbourne
48.0 0.0 25.1 60.5 77.7 48.2
50
Lund University
39.2 0.0 35.6 52.9 77.2 47.8
51-75
Baylor College of Medicine
0.0 0.0 30.8 46.8 89.0  
51-75
Emory University
0.0 0.0 38.8 51.8 86.4  
51-75
King's College London
0.0 39.2 26.7 45.7 82.4  
51-75
Michigan State University
0.0 0.0 50.3 53.8 75.6  
51-75
Northwestern University
0.0 0.0 32.1 47.9 88.6  
51-75
Osaka University
0.0 0.0 39.1 58.4 71.8  
51-75
Pennsylvania State University - University Park
0.0 0.0 45.3 49.7 80.4  
51-75
Princeton University
0.0 39.2 30.8 33.2 93.5  
51-75
Technical University Munich
39.2 0.0 33.3 46.1 81.4  
51-75
The Ohio State University - Columbus
0.0 0.0 28.1 58.0 78.0  
51-75
The University of Georgia
0.0 0.0 39.8 56.3 72.1  
51-75
The University of Queensland
39.2 0.0 12.6 60.2 81.1  
51-75
The University of Sheffield
39.2 0.0 30.8 39.4 87.5  
51-75
University of Birmingham
39.2 0.0 30.8 40.9 82.2  
51-75
University of California, Irvine
0.0 0.0 40.7 45.9 82.8  
51-75
University of California, Santa Barbara
55.5 0.0 28.1 32.0 87.4  
51-75
University of Chicago
0.0 24.0 28.1 45.2 90.6  
51-75
University of Freiburg
48.0 0.0 21.8 40.6 85.6  
51-75
University of Iowa
0.0 0.0 35.6 43.8 85.6  
51-75
University of Munich
39.2 27.7 12.6 50.8 80.0  
51-75
University of Nottingham
0.0 53.7 28.1 40.2 75.5  
51-75
University of Rochester
39.2 0.0 21.8 39.9 87.4  
51-75
University of Southern California
0.0 0.0 37.7 43.1 86.0  
51-75
University of Toronto
0.0 0.0 28.1 69.8 82.1  
51-75
University of Virginia
0.0 0.0 40.4 42.5 87.8  
76-100
Brown University
55.5 0.0 21.8 32.6 81.1  
76-100
Cardiff University
0.0 43.9 12.6 38.1 77.3  
76-100
Catholic University of Leuven
0.0 0.0 29.5 49.9 80.0  
76-100
Catholic University of Louvain
0.0 27.7 21.8 38.9 77.8  
76-100
Colorado State University
0.0 0.0 39.8 45.1 73.4  
76-100
Ghent University
0.0 0.0 28.1 59.7 74.9  
76-100
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
0.0 0.0 25.1 39.3 89.6  
76-100
Oregon State University
0.0 0.0 37.7 51.0 72.2  
76-100
Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
0.0 0.0 19.9 57.2 84.3  
76-100
Purdue University - West Lafayette
0.0 0.0 32.1 48.4 77.6  
76-100
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
0.0 0.0 38.8 41.2 80.5  
76-100
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
0.0 0.0 28.1 44.6 83.2  
76-100
Tufts University
0.0 34.0 26.7 36.9 79.0  
76-100
University of Alberta
0.0 0.0 28.1 56.9 76.2  
76-100
University of Arizona
0.0 0.0 28.1 49.5 78.5  
76-100
University of California, Riverside
0.0 0.0 39.3 43.2 76.4  
76-100
University of Geneva
27.7 0.0 21.8 35.5 88.8  
76-100
University of Goettingen
48.0 0.0 12.6 51.6 77.4  
76-100
University of Helsinki
0.0 0.0 26.7 61.5 75.8  
76-100
University of Montreal
27.7 0.0 17.8 47.6 78.6  
76-100
University of Sydney
0.0 0.0 25.1 54.5 74.0  
76-100
University of Tuebingen
55.5 0.0 17.8 46.0 77.3  
76-100
University of Wuerzburg
0.0 0.0 34.4 40.9 82.3  
76-100
Utrecht University
0.0 0.0 33.3 45.1 80.4  
76-100
VU University Amsterdam
0.0 0.0 28.1 45.4 80.1
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