全球象牙塔:新一代精英大學正在崛起大綱

June 19 (Reuters) - Watch out Ivy League, there's a new generation of elite universities on the rise around the globe, according to a new "100 Under 50" report from Times Higher Education magazine.
路透社6月19日 - 根據《泰晤士高等教育》雜誌(Times Higher Education)公佈的世界年輕大學排名(100 Under 50)報告，常春藤聯盟要小心了！全球新一代的精英大學正在崛起。

The report, published on Wednesday, ranks the best young universities - defined as those founded no more than 50 years ago - in categories including research prowess, student-to-faculty ratio and international reputation.
這份週三發佈的報告根據包括研究能力、學生和教職員工比率以及國際聲譽在內的因素對建校不到50年的年輕大學進行了排名。

South Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology came out on top. Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne ranked second, followed by another rising Asian star, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
韓國浦項科技大學(Pohang University of Science and Technology)名列榜首。瑞士洛桑聯邦理工學院(Ecole Polytechnique Federale ofLausanne)位列第二，隨後是另一家亞洲新星--韓國科學技術學院(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)。

Britain had 18 institutions in the top 100, more than any other nation. Other countries with strong showings included France, Spain and Taiwan.
在前100名的大學榜單中，英國高校佔據18席，遠多於其他國家。其他表現強勁的國家和地區包括法國、西班牙和臺灣。

Eight American institutions made the list - all of them public universities. Two University of California campuses, Irvine and Santa Cruz, cracked the top 15, as did the University of Texas at Dallas. Rounding out the list of U.S. upstarts: The University of Illinois at Chicago, George Mason University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
美國有八所高校進入榜單，且均爲公立大學。加利福尼亞大學的兩個分校--爾灣分校(Irvine)和聖克魯茲分校(Santa Cruz)躋身前15名，德克薩斯大學達拉斯分校(University of Texas at Dallas)也進入前15。進入榜單的美國大學還有：伊利諾大學芝加哥分校、喬治梅森大學、馬里蘭大學巴爾的摩分校和德克薩斯大學聖安東尼奧分校。

Twenty-eight countries around the globe are represented on the list, but notable absences from the top 100 include India, Russia and mainland China.
進入榜單的高校來自全球28個國家，但值得注意的是，印度、俄羅斯和中國大陸卻沒有一所的高校進入前100名榜單。