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发信人: Kunk (汪洋中的一条船), 信区: AdvancedEdu
标  题: Methodology of Engineering Ranking
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Mar 20 11:02:04 1999)

The overall rankings for the nation's 221 graduate
  engineering programs are based on a weighted average of
  the 12 measures of academic quality described here. The
  specialty rankings are based solely on reputation. For an
  overview of our methods, click here.

  Reputation (40 percent): Reputation for academic quality
  was measured through two surveys conducted in the fall
  of 1998. Engineering school deans and deans of
  academic affairs were asked to rate the quality of
  programs from "marginal" (1) to "distinguished" (5).
  Fifty-six percent responded, and the resulting score
  accounts for 25 percent of the school's rank. Practicing
  engineers who are members of the National Academy of
  Engineering and corporate recruiters who hire from U.S.
  News's top-ranked schools were asked to select the 25
  best graduate engineering programs. Twenty-five percent
  responded, and their opinions account for 15 percent of
  the final rank.

  Student selectivity (10 percent): The strength of
  students who enrolled in the fall of 1998 was measured
  using Graduate Record Examination quantitative and
  analytic scores (45 percent each) and the proportion of
  applicants accepted into the program (10 percent).

  Faculty resources (25 percent): The score is based on
  the 1998 ratio of full-time doctoral candidates to full-time
  faculty (25 percent of this measure); the 1998 proportion
  of full-time engineering faculty who are members of the
  National Academy of Engineering (25 percent); the
  number of Ph.D. degrees granted in 1997-98 (20 percent);
  the proportion of full-time faculty who held doctoral
  degrees during the current academic year (20 percent);
  and the 1998 ratio of master's degree candidates to
  full-time faculty (10 percent).

  Research activity (25 percent): U.S. News uses both
  total research expenditures (60 percent of this measure)
  and research dollars per faculty member engaged in
  research (40 percent). For both measures, expenditures
  equal the average 1997 and 1998 dollars of publicly and
  privately funded research expenditures administered by
  the school.

  Overall rank: A school's score on each indicator was
  first standardized and used to rank schools on that
  attribute. Then the scores were weighted, totaled, and
  rescaled so that the top school received a 100 and other
  schools received a percentage of the top score.

  Specialty rankings: U.S. News asked engineering
  school deans to identify the 10 schools with the best
  programs in each area. The 10 schools receiving the
  highest number of nominations appear in the tables. The
  schools verified their specialty offerings.

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