除了工程/CS等比较职业导向的一些硬专业之外，由于本科教育仍以通识教育为
主旨，学校的整体学术声誉是考虑选校的一个重要指标。
US NEWS的同行评价打分(Peer Assessment Score)是这方面衡量的一个很好参考。
对比2013和2019(最新) 的数据，俺发现CMU, UCLA, GA Tech打分都有上升，这与
我们观察到近年这几校很火的现象相吻合。
值得指出的是，此表上一些州大表现不俗。说明好州大也是一个很好的上学选择。
如果是本州，学费低，更加值得考虑。
前15，20学校每年变化其实都不大。这些学校的优势是N年积累，很牢固。
[以下分线和评语为本人所加，一家之言]
Top 50 U.S. Schools Ranked by US NewsPeer Assessment Score (Data 9/2019 - latest available)
-----------1: HYPSM: Stellar reputation all cross(The T5) --------------------
1. Harvard University 4.9
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.9
1. Princeton University 4.9
1. Stanford University 4.9
5. Yale University 4.8
--------2: (Lower Ivy Equivalent) Very prestigious schools with wide strengths(Approx. T15) -------
6. California Institute of Technology 4.7
6. Columbia University 4.7
6. Johns Hopkins University 4.7
6. University of California-Berkeley 4.7
10. Cornell University 4.6
10. University of Chicago 4.6
10. University of Pennsylvania 4.6
13. Brown University 4.5
13. Duke University 4.5
13. Northwestern University 4.5
13. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4.5
17. Dartmouth College 4.4
------3:Prestigious schools with noted areas of specialty and very high overall quality (Approx. T30)-----
18. Carnegie Mellon University 4.3
18. Georgia Institute of Technology 4.3
18. University of California-Los Angeles 4.3
18. Vanderbilt University 4.3
22. Georgetown University 4.2
22. Rice University 4.2
22. University of Notre Dame 4.2
22. University of Virginia 4.2
26. Emory University 4.1
26. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 4.1
26. University of Texas-Austin 4.1
26. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4.1
26. Washington University-St Louis 4.1
31. New York University 4.0
------------4:Powerful academic centers with more regional influences(T50) ----------------------
32. University of California-Davis 3.9
33. University of California-San Diego 3.9
33. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 3.9
33. University of Southern California 3.9
33. University of Washington 3.9
3.7 College of William and Mary 3.8
37. Ohio State University 3.8
37. Purdue University-West Lafayette 3.8
37. Tufts University 3.8
37. University of California-Irvine 3.8
37. University of Florida 3.8
43. Boston College 3.7
43. Boston University 3.7
43. Case Western Reserve University 3.7
43. Indiana University-Bloomington 3.7
43. Pennsylvania State University-University Park 3.7
43. Texas A&M University-College Station 3.7
43. University of Maryland-College Park 3.7
43. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 3.7
