| [ studyingabroad ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): sjdoh (한솔 아빠) 날 짜 (Date): 1996년09월15일(일) 09시45분49초 KDT 제 목(Title): '96 US Ranking (Grad. Engineering) 말도 많으면서도 어쨌든 한번쯤은 보게되는, US News & World Report의 '96 ranking (Graduate school, Engineering)을 'http://www.usnews.com/'에서 가져왔습니다. 참고하시길... 저 역시 자신의 연구 분야는 생각하지 않고, 이런 전체적인 순위를 우선 생각하는 것은 잘못이라고 생각합니다. 자신의 무엇을 하고 싶은지 잘 생각하시고, 희망하는 교수를 찾아서 미리 접촉을 하는게 필요할 것 같습니다. (그리고, 그게 유리할거예요.) 최소한 박사과정을 생각하신다면... - 한솔 아빠 [America's Best Graduate Schools] Methodology Top 25 | Second Tier | Specialties | Methodology Here's how U.S. News determined the rankings for the nation's 219 graduate engineering programs, which appear in the 1996 America's Best Graduate Schools guide. There were five measures: faculty resources, research activity, student selectivity and two separate measures of institutional reputation. * Student selectivity was based on three statistics for doctoral and master's degree candidates who enrolled in fall 1995: average scores on the quantitative and analytical parts of the Graduate Record Examination (each counted for 45 percent of the measure) and proportion of applicants accepted in the program (10 percent). * Faculty resources was based on these variables: the proportion of full-time faculty during the current academic year who held Ph.D.'s (20 percent of the total); the current ratio of both full-time doctoral (25 percent) and master's degree candidates to full-time faculty (10 percent); the proportion of full-time engineering faculty who are members of the National Academy of Engineering (25 percent); and the number of Ph.D. degrees granted in 1995 (20 percent). * Research activity was based on two indicators: the 1995 dollar total of the publicly and privately funded research expenditures administered by the engineering school (60 percent) and that total divided by the number of faculty members engaged in research (40 percent). * Reputation was determined by two U.S. News reputational surveys conducted in early 1996. In the first, engineering school deans and deans of academic affairs were asked to rate by quartiles the reputation of each graduate engineering program. In the second, 938 practicing engineers, all members of the National Academy of Engineering, were asked to select the 25 top graduate engineering programs based upon their experiences with recent graduates. * Overall rank was determined by converting into percentiles the scores achieved by each school in the above categories. The highest score in each category--or subcategory--was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for the other schools were then converted into percentiles by figuring them as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school and ranked in descending order. The rankings for research activity, faculty resources and selectivity were determined by totaling the weighted percentiles of their subvariables. Next, the number ranks in the five indicators were weighted: The two reputational surveys each accounted for 20 percent of the final score; faculty resources and research activity, for 25 percent each; and student selectivity, for 10 percent. The final rankings for graduate engineering programs were then determined by totaling the five weighted number-ranked scores. The weighted score for the top school was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the others were then determined by figuring their totals as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school. ------------------------------------------------------------- � Copyright U.S. News & World Report, Inc. All rights reserved. |