以下是USNews上最新的排名，以学术声望

　　(Academic Requtation)为准，对全美250所大学进行的排名。相对于其他综合排名，我认为这个还是比较有意义的。当然，选校对于每个人标准不一。导师，专业排名，地点也许更重要。大家可以用www.google.com对这些学校的网址进行搜索。

　　1 Princeton University (NJ) 4.9

　　2 Harvard University (MA) 4.9

　　3 Yale University (CT) 4.9

　　4 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 4.9

　　5 Stanford University (CA) 4.9

　　6 University of California Berkeley 4.8

　　7 California Institute of Technology 4.7

　　8 University of Chicago 4.7

　　9 Johns Hopkins University (MD) 4.7

　　10 Duke University (NC) 4.6

　　11 Columbia University (NY) 4.6

　　12 Cornell University (NY) 4.6

　　13 University of Michigan Ann Arbor 4.6

　　14 University of Pennsylvania 4.5

　　15 Dartmouth College (NH) 4.4

　　16 Northwestern University (IL) 4.4

　　17 Brown University (RI) 4.4

　　18 University of Virginia 4.4

　　19 Rice University (TX) 4.3

　　20 Univ. of California Los Angeles 4.3

　　21 Univ. of Wisconsin Madison 4.3

　　22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.2

　　23 U. of North Carolina Chapel Hill 4.2

　　24 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4.2

　　25 Washington University in St. Louis 4.1

　　26 Vanderbilt University (TN) 4.1

　　27 University of Texas Austin 4.1

　　28 Emory University (GA) 4

　　29 Georgetown University (DC) 4

　　30 Georgia Institute of Technology 4

　　31 University of Washington 4

　　32 Indiana University Bloomington 3.9

　　33 Purdue Univ. West Lafayette (IN) 3.9

　　34 University of Notre Dame (IN) 3.9

　　35 Univ. of California San Diego 3.9

　　36 University of California Davis * 3.9

　　37 Ohio State University Columbus 3.8

　　38 Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities 3.8

　　39 College of William and Mary (VA) 3.8

　　40 Univ. of Southern California 3.8

　　41 Pennsylvania State U. University Park 3.8

　　42 University of Arizona 3.7

　　43 University of Colorado Boulder 3.7

　　44 University of Iowa 3.7

　　45 Univ. of Maryland College Park 3.7

　　46 New York University 3.7

　　47 University of California Irvine 3.7

　　48 Michigan State University 3.6

　　49 University of Florida 3.6

　　50 Tufts University (MA) 3.6