下面我们先列出了常见的美国大学的简称，以便大家上网查询之用。在 BBS 上大家一般使用学校的简称来称呼学校，有些人可能会看不懂，所以就先补习一下吧。学校后面括号中写的是该校所在州的简称。
1. Caltech: California Institute of Technology (CA)
2. Harvard: Harvard University (MA)
3. MIT: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MA)
4. Princeton: Princeton University (NJ)
5. Yale: Yale University (CT)
6. Stanford: Stanford University (CA)
7. Duke: Duke University (NC)
8. JHU: Johns Hopkins University (MD)
9. UPenn: University of Pennsylvania (PA)
10. Columbia: Columbia University (NY)
11. Cornell: Cornell University (NY)
12. Dartmouth: Dartmouth College (NH)
13. Chicago: University of Chicago (IL)
14. Brown: Brown University (RI)
15. NWU: Northwestern University (IL)
16. Rice: Rice University (TX)
17. WUSTL: Washington University (MO)
18. Emory: Emory University (GA)
19. ND: University of Notre Dame (IN)
20. Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley
21. Vanderbilt: Vanderbilt University (TN)
22. Virginia: University of Virginia
23. CMU: Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
24. Georgetown: Georgetown University (DC)
25. UCLA: University of California at Los Angeles
26. UMich: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
27. UNC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
28 WFU: Wake Forest University (NC)
29 WM: College of William and Mary (VA)
30. Tufts: Tufts University (MA)
31. Brandeis: Brandeis University (MA)
32. UCSD: University of California at San Diego
33. Rochester: University of Rochester (NY)
34. CWRU: Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
35. Lehigh: Lehigh University (PA)
36. NYU: New York University
37. UIUC: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
38. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin at Madison
39. BC: Boston College
40. BU: Boston University
41. Gatech: Georgia Institute of Technology
42. PSU: Pennsylvania State University at University Park
43. UCDavis: University of California at Davis
44. USC: University of Southern California
45. Tulane: Tulane University (LA)
46. UCSB: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
47. UTexas: University of Texas at Austin
48. Washington: University of Washington
49. UCI: University of California at Irvine
50. UFL: University of Florida
51. UMD: University of Maryland at College Park
52. TAMU: Texas Agricultural & Machinery University
下面这个表是美国各州名及其简称与首府对应表，大家在上网查资料的时
缩写 州名 首府
AL Alabama Montgomery
AK Alaska Juneau
AZ Arizona Phoenix
AR Arkansas Little Rock
CA California Sacramento
CO Colorado Denver
CT Connecticut Hartford
DE Delaware Dover
DC District of Columbia
FL Florida Tallahassee
GA Georgia Atlanta
HI Hawaii Honolulu
ID Idaho Boise
IL Illinois Springfield
IN Indiana Indianapolis
IA Iowa Des Moines
KS Kansas Topeka
KY Kentucky Frankfort
LA Louisiana Baton Rouge
ME Maine Augusta
MA Massachusetts Boston
MD Maryland Annapolis
MI Michigan Lansing
MN Minnesota Minneapolis
MS Mississippi Jackson
MO Missouri Jefferson City
MT Montana Helena
NE Nebraska Lincoln
NV Nevada Carson City
NH New Hampshire Concord
NJ New Jersey Trenton
NM New Mexico Santa Fe
NY New York Albany
NC North Carolina Raleigh
ND North Dakota Bismarck
OH Ohio Columbus
OK Okalahoma Oklahoma City
OR Oregon Salem
PA Pennsylvania Harrisburg
RI Rhode Island Providence
SC South Carolina Columbia
SD South Dakota Pierre
TN Tennessee Nashville
TX Texas Austin
UT Utah Salt Lake City
VT Vermont Montpelier
VA Virginia Richmond
WA Washington Olympia
WV West Virginia Charleston
WI Wisconsin Madison
WY Wyoming Cheyenne