近40年來,美國的大學見證了的學生數量的崛起,這使得公立教育的品質日漸受到重視。1985年,Richard Moll出版了Public Ivies: A Guide to America’s best public undergraduate colleges and universities,列出他認為從硬體設備到師資都和常春藤盟校(Ivy League) 不分軒輊的公立學校。Moll在書中一共列出了8所學校,與Ivy的數量相同:
- College of William & Mary
- Miami University
- University of California (書籍出版時共有9個校區)
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Vermont
- University of Virginia
2001年,Howard與Matthew Greene出版了 Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities ,將Moll的名單擴加至30所大學:
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- State University of New York at Binghamton
- University of Connecticut
- University of Delaware
- University of Maryland
- College of William & Mary
- University of Virginia
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Arizona
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Washington
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Miami University
- Michigan State University
- The Ohio State University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Ivy使得更多美國公民,尤其是該州州民,可以用親民的價格享受與私立大學不相伯仲的教學品質。許多被列為Public Ivy的學校都擁有堅強的教授團隊與校友,並持續在不同領域獲得最高榮譽獎項,例如諾貝爾獎(Nobel Prize)以及普立茲獎(Pulitzer Prize)。
對於即將申請大學的學生來說,今年的秋季會是非常忙碌的一段時間。若你在選校策略上有任何疑問,歡迎預約艾克顧問,讓我們供您專業的咨詢服務!