美国留学 双语解析美国排名前五十的文理学院

为什么你想知道美国文理学院排行？因为美国人用的“学院”这个词，意味着同样4年制授予学位项目，就像“大学”一样。“学院”和“大学”都有排名。实际上多数美国的“学院”都比“大学”好。举个例子来说，如果你想读一个顶级MBA课程，或者中等法律学校，如果你持有一个文科学位的话，会比商科或者前医学或前法学课程毕业的学生有更多的录取机会。同时你应该知道，多数美国大学内部都有一个文理学院。

Why do you want to know the U.S. Liberal arts College rankings?Because Americans use the word “college” to mean the same four-year degree- granting program as the word “university!” One is not better than the other. They both have #1 rankings. In fact, many of the American colleges are better than the universities. For example, if you want to go to a top MBA program, or medical or law school, you have a better chance to get in with a liberal arts degree than a business or pre-med or pre-law program in a university. At the same time you should know that most American universities have a College of Liberal arts or sometimes called Arts and Sciences College within their university.

进入哈佛或者耶鲁学院的高中生有4年的时间去拿到他们的B.A或者B.S学位。在大多数大学里大学意味着研究生院校，你认识到这其中的区别了么？在文理学院你学的东西都是为了更好地思考，更有创造力，更有创新能力。

High school students who go to Harvard and Yale College for four years to get their B.A. or B.S. degree. “University” in most U.S. universities means graduate school. Do you see the difference? In a liberal arts college you study everything in order to learn to think and be creative and innovative.

你不是为了求职而求学。你在那里接受教育学习，为了解这个世界上有什么而学习。在你知道了你的很多选择之后你才了解哪种职业道路适合你。在美国人17岁的时候，在知道他们的选项之前是不会选择自己的职业的。

You are not there to train for a career. You are there to be educated and learn what there is in the world to study. To learn which career path feels right to you after you know your choices. Americans do not choose a career at 17 years old before they know their options!

通常“学院”比“大学”小，但不总是这样。比如说达特茅斯学院（常青藤盟校之一）有超过5000个学生是一所学院，卫理公会大学仅仅有3000个学生，却叫做大学。

Usually a college is smaller than a university – but not always. For example Dartmouth College (Ivy League) has more than 5,000 students and is a college; Wesleyan University with only 3000 students is called a university.

重点是，为了搞清楚申请哪里，你必须仔细研究美国的“大学”和“学院”，因为你不能光从名字就知道“大学”和“学院”的区别。

The point is that you must research both the colleges and universities in America to know where to apply because you cannot tell the difference between a college and a university by their name.

如果你就读一个美国的“学院”，你可以学中文或者英文或者文学；外国语言；科学比如生物学，化学，地理，物理；人类学比如说拉丁文，古希腊文学，宗教和哲学，历史，视觉和行为艺术；社会科学，比如经济，历史，社会学，人类学，心理学，政治学，大多数美国人毕业于美国的文理学院。

If you go to an American college you can major in Chinese or English language or literature; foreign languages; sciences such as biology, chemistry, geology, physics; humanities such as the classics (Latin and Greek), religion and philosophy, history, the visual and performing arts; social sciences such as economics, history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and political sciences. Most American undergraduate students start off in the liberal arts college.

他们可以主修任何科目，可以在读了两年大学学到很懂新东西之后，再选择他们的专业。下面是50所顶尖文理学院的USnews排名。你知道的，到目前为止，排名都不是真理。事实上美国新闻是一本杂志，评估美国大学是为了卖他们的杂志，这不是一个专业协会的评估，也不是一个政府文件。这只是一个列表，对你来说要做很多研究工作找出适合自己的大学。这些大学的招生代表都曾经飞赴中国举行招生会，只为让你了解更多。

They can major in any subject, they can choose their major after they have studied many new things for two years at college.Here are the top 50 U.S. Liberal Arts Colleges, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings. You know by now that the rankings are not the truth, in this case, the U.S. News is a magazine that measures liberal arts colleges in order to sell their magazine, it is not a government document or a professional association measure. It is a list for you to check out and do your own research on each college. Many of these college admissions representatives will travel to China to hold information sessions for you to learn more.

在Zinch上找出这些大学，找到这些大学里的中国学生让他们来告诉你，这些大学是怎么样的。

Check them out on Zinch.com, and find Chinese students who go there to tell you what it’s like!

1. Williams College威廉姆斯学院

2. Amherst College阿莫斯特学院

3. Swarthmore College斯沃斯摩尔学院

4. Pomona College波莫纳学院

5. Middlebury College明德学院

6. Bowdoin College鲍登学院

7. Carleton College卡尔顿学院

8. Wellesley College威尔士利学院

9. Claremont McKenna College克莱蒙特麦肯纳学院

10. Haverford College哈弗福德学院

11. Davidson College戴维森学院

12. Washington & Lee University华盛顿和李大学

13. Wesleyan University卫理公会大学

14. Vassar College瓦萨学院

15. Hamilton College汉米尔顿学院

16. Harvey Mudd College哈维姆德学院

17. Grinnell College格林内尔学院

18. Smith College史密斯学院

19. Bates College贝茨学院

20. Colby College卡尔比学院

21. Colgate University科尔盖特大学

22. Oberlin College奥伯林学院

23. Bryn Mawr College布林茅学院

24. Macalester College麦卡利斯特学院

25. Colorado College科罗拉多学院

26. Richmond, University里士满大学

27. Bucknell University巴克内尔大学

28. Holy Cross, College圣十字学院

29. Scripps College 斯克里普斯学院

30. Barnard College伯纳德学院

31. Kenyon College凯尼恩学院

32. Sewanee, University of the South西沃恩南方大学

33. Connecticut College康涅狄格学院

34. Occidental College西方学院

35. Trinity College (CT) 三一学院

36. Lafayette College拉法叶学院

37. union   College联合学院

38. Centre College中央学院

39. Franklin & Marshall College富兰克林和马歇尔学院

40. Furman University福尔曼大学

41. Pitzer College(Claremonts) 匹泽学院

42. Whitman College惠特曼学院

43. Dickinson College迪金森学院

44. Gettysburg College葛底斯堡学院

45. Denison University丹尼森学院

46. Skidmore College斯基德摩尔学院

47. Bard College波德学院

48. Rhodes College罗德学院

49. DePauw University迪保尔学院

50. St. Lawrence University圣劳伦斯大学