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:
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
Academic Ranking of World Universities in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2010
1 |
Harvard University
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100.0 | 75.1 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 94.2 | 100.0 |
2 |
University of California, San Francisco
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0.0 | 100.0 | 72.2 | 63.0 | 94.9 | 76.5 |
3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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78.4 | 94.1 | 54.3 | 51.0 | 96.2 | 76.3 |
4 |
University of Washington
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55.5 | 74.7 | 51.1 | 70.9 | 87.0 | 72.8 |
5 |
Stanford University
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0.0 | 53.7 | 82.1 | 62.6 | 93.5 | 71.3 |
6 |
University of Cambridge
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92.0 | 43.9 | 47.0 | 64.4 | 88.7 | 69.4 |
7 |
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas
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62.0 | 76.0 | 45.3 | 44.4 | 97.1 | 67.8 |
8 |
University of Oxford
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55.5 | 43.9 | 52.6 | 67.6 | 87.9 | 67.7 |
9 |
Yale University
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62.0 | 27.7 | 57.4 | 62.7 | 92.5 | 67.0 |
10 |
Columbia University
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73.4 | 54.6 | 44.2 | 55.5 | 90.5 | 66.5 |
11 |
Rockefeller University
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48.0 | 82.0 | 49.0 | 32.9 | 100.0 | 66.0 |
11 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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55.5 | 34.0 | 54.8 | 70.1 | 82.9 | 66.0 |
13 |
Cornell University
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48.0 | 19.6 | 65.5 | 70.2 | 82.0 | 65.6 |
14 |
The Johns Hopkins University
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62.0 | 58.8 | 35.9 | 63.3 | 88.8 | 65.4 |
15 |
University of California, San Diego
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48.0 | 0.0 | 64.9 | 63.9 | 89.5 | 62.6 |
16 |
University of California, Berkeley
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78.4 | 0.0 | 51.1 | 63.9 | 90.1 | 62.3 |
17 |
Karolinska Institute
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48.0 | 55.5 | 44.5 | 54.3 | 80.1 | 61.0 |
18 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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39.2 | 53.7 | 45.3 | 55.5 | 79.2 | 60.1 |
19 |
University of Pennsylvania
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62.0 | 0.0 | 47.0 | 63.8 | 91.9 | 60.0 |
20 |
University College London
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39.2 | 27.7 | 46.5 | 63.0 | 85.4 | 59.9 |
21 |
University of California, Davis
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0.0 | 0.0 | 66.5 | 76.4 | 80.0 | 58.8 |
22 |
University of California, Los Angeles
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0.0 | 39.2 | 40.7 | 65.0 | 87.1 | 57.1 |
23 |
Washington University in St. Louis
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27.7 | 0.0 | 51.1 | 58.8 | 92.6 | 56.3 |
24 |
California Institute of Technology
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48.0 | 60.4 | 30.4 | 29.7 | 97.2 | 56.1 |
24 |
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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27.7 | 0.0 | 50.3 | 66.9 | 84.3 | 56.1 |
26 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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0.0 | 43.9 | 40.7 | 56.5 | 87.7 | 55.7 |
27 |
McGill University
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55.5 | 0.0 | 42.6 | 62.6 | 82.9 | 55.5 |
28 |
Vanderbilt University
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0.0 | 63.5 | 27.6 | 49.6 | 90.0 | 54.2 |
29 |
Kyoto University
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39.2 | 0.0 | 48.7 | 70.5 | 70.2 | 54.1 |
30 |
University of Zurich
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0.0 | 48.0 | 36.7 | 55.5 | 82.6 | 53.7 |
31 |
The University of Tokyo
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0.0 | 0.0 | 43.6 | 84.6 | 73.4 | 53.1 |
32 |
University of Florida
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27.7 | 0.0 | 43.6 | 74.1 | 69.4 | 52.3 |
33 |
Duke University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 45.3 | 61.3 | 87.8 | 51.3 |
34 |
The University of Western Australia
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48.0 | 38.0 | 28.1 | 46.0 | 77.6 | 51.1 |
35 |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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39.2 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 64.2 | 78.0 | 51.0 |
36 |
University of Wageningen
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0.0 | 0.0 | 50.3 | 62.5 | 80.1 | 50.9 |
37 |
University of Basel
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39.2 | 27.7 | 33.3 | 39.0 | 87.5 | 50.6 |
38 |
The University of Edinburgh
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39.2 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 51.9 | 87.7 | 50.3 |
39 |
University of British Columbia
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0.0 | 0.0 | 43.6 | 66.9 | 79.6 | 50.1 |
40 |
University of Pittsburgh
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39.2 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 56.5 | 83.3 | 49.8 |
41 |
New York University
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27.7 | 0.0 | 41.7 | 46.3 | 89.3 | 49.7 |
41 |
The Australian National University
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48.0 | 19.6 | 35.6 | 40.0 | 82.1 | 49.7 |
41 |
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine
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0.0 | 0.0 | 41.1 | 60.2 | 87.4 | 49.7 |
44 |
University of Massachusetts Medical School -
Worcester
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0.0 | 53.7 | 25.1 | 36.8 | 93.2 | 49.4 |
45 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich
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27.7 | 0.0 | 38.1 | 52.0 | 85.1 | 49.1 |
46 |
University of Copenhagen
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27.7 | 0.0 | 30.8 | 67.8 | 73.5 | 48.3 |
46 |
University of Utah
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0.0 | 31.0 | 38.8 | 44.2 | 81.7 | 48.3 |
48 |
Case Western Reserve University
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62.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 44.0 | 86.0 | 48.2 |
48 |
University of Melbourne
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48.0 | 0.0 | 25.1 | 60.5 | 77.7 | 48.2 |
50 |
Lund University
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39.2 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 52.9 | 77.2 | 47.8 |
51-75 |
Baylor College of Medicine
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0.0 | 0.0 | 30.8 | 46.8 | 89.0 | |
51-75 |
Emory University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 38.8 | 51.8 | 86.4 | |
51-75 |
King's College London
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0.0 | 39.2 | 26.7 | 45.7 | 82.4 | |
51-75 |
Michigan State University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 50.3 | 53.8 | 75.6 | |
51-75 |
Northwestern University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 32.1 | 47.9 | 88.6 | |
51-75 |
Osaka University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 39.1 | 58.4 | 71.8 | |
51-75 |
Pennsylvania State University - University
Park
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0.0 | 0.0 | 45.3 | 49.7 | 80.4 | |
51-75 |
Princeton University
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0.0 | 39.2 | 30.8 | 33.2 | 93.5 | |
51-75 |
Technical University Munich
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39.2 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 46.1 | 81.4 | |
51-75 |
The Ohio State University - Columbus
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 58.0 | 78.0 | |
51-75 |
The University of Georgia
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0.0 | 0.0 | 39.8 | 56.3 | 72.1 | |
51-75 |
The University of Queensland
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39.2 | 0.0 | 12.6 | 60.2 | 81.1 | |
51-75 |
The University of Sheffield
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39.2 | 0.0 | 30.8 | 39.4 | 87.5 | |
51-75 |
University of Birmingham
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39.2 | 0.0 | 30.8 | 40.9 | 82.2 | |
51-75 |
University of California, Irvine
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0.0 | 0.0 | 40.7 | 45.9 | 82.8 | |
51-75 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
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55.5 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 32.0 | 87.4 | |
51-75 |
University of Chicago
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0.0 | 24.0 | 28.1 | 45.2 | 90.6 | |
51-75 |
University of Freiburg
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48.0 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 40.6 | 85.6 | |
51-75 |
University of Iowa
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0.0 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 43.8 | 85.6 | |
51-75 |
University of Munich
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39.2 | 27.7 | 12.6 | 50.8 | 80.0 | |
51-75 |
University of Nottingham
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0.0 | 53.7 | 28.1 | 40.2 | 75.5 | |
51-75 |
University of Rochester
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39.2 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 39.9 | 87.4 | |
51-75 |
University of Southern California
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0.0 | 0.0 | 37.7 | 43.1 | 86.0 | |
51-75 |
University of Toronto
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 69.8 | 82.1 | |
51-75 |
University of Virginia
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0.0 | 0.0 | 40.4 | 42.5 | 87.8 | |
76-100 |
Brown University
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55.5 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 32.6 | 81.1 | |
76-100 |
Cardiff University
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0.0 | 43.9 | 12.6 | 38.1 | 77.3 | |
76-100 |
Catholic University of Leuven
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0.0 | 0.0 | 29.5 | 49.9 | 80.0 | |
76-100 |
Catholic University of Louvain
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0.0 | 27.7 | 21.8 | 38.9 | 77.8 | |
76-100 |
Colorado State University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 39.8 | 45.1 | 73.4 | |
76-100 |
Ghent University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 59.7 | 74.9 | |
76-100 |
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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0.0 | 0.0 | 25.1 | 39.3 | 89.6 | |
76-100 |
Oregon State University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 37.7 | 51.0 | 72.2 | |
76-100 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
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0.0 | 0.0 | 19.9 | 57.2 | 84.3 | |
76-100 |
Purdue University - West Lafayette
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0.0 | 0.0 | 32.1 | 48.4 | 77.6 | |
76-100 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New
Brunswick
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0.0 | 0.0 | 38.8 | 41.2 | 80.5 | |
76-100 |
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 44.6 | 83.2 | |
76-100 |
Tufts University
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0.0 | 34.0 | 26.7 | 36.9 | 79.0 | |
76-100 |
University of Alberta
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 56.9 | 76.2 | |
76-100 |
University of Arizona
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 49.5 | 78.5 | |
76-100 |
University of California, Riverside
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0.0 | 0.0 | 39.3 | 43.2 | 76.4 | |
76-100 |
University of Geneva
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27.7 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 35.5 | 88.8 | |
76-100 |
University of Goettingen
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48.0 | 0.0 | 12.6 | 51.6 | 77.4 | |
76-100 |
University of Helsinki
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0.0 | 0.0 | 26.7 | 61.5 | 75.8 | |
76-100 |
University of Montreal
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27.7 | 0.0 | 17.8 | 47.6 | 78.6 | |
76-100 |
University of Sydney
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0.0 | 0.0 | 25.1 | 54.5 | 74.0 | |
76-100 |
University of Tuebingen
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55.5 | 0.0 | 17.8 | 46.0 | 77.3 | |
76-100 |
University of Wuerzburg
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0.0 | 0.0 | 34.4 | 40.9 | 82.3 | |
76-100 |
Utrecht University
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0.0 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 45.1 | 80.4 | |
76-100 |
VU University Amsterdam
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0.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 45.4 | 80.1 |
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