关乎美本校园生活满意度和工作钱程的小伙伴看过来

开开心心把学上，轻轻松松赚钱花！

这应该是所有学生的愿望之一了。不过这可能吗？

如果你特别关心校园生活幸福度和留学的回报率，这里有四个方法可以帮大家，选到助你接近愿望的大学和专业哟！（下文中英双语）

1，College endowment: college endowment is a perpetual source of support for the University and its mission of teaching and research. Some categories of funds supports faculty and students, including financial aid for undergraduates, graduate fellowships, and student life and activities for the long-term, from generation to generation.

So, we might instead direct our attention to where these funds go. And more precisely, how much of this funding is going to the undergraduate student population? Perhaps some departments and offices offer funding opportunities for study programs abroad, or language classes over the summer. Rather than just looking at how much the college’s endowment is, it may be more prudent to take a closer look at what privilege sit concretely provides students. Maybe the dorms are spacious and new with the gym donning well-kept equipment.

1，大学收到的捐赠资金，能对大学及其教学和研究任务给与永久的支持。捐赠资金中有几种类型的资金是专门用于支持教职工和学生的，包括为本科生助学金，研究生奖学金，以及学生校园生活和活动。

这些资金具体具体用于哪些方面？或者说更准确地说，这笔资金中有多少将用于本科学生？与其想搞清楚大学收到的捐赠资金有多少，不妨更仔细的看一看，它具体会给学生带来什么益处：比如，大学里一些部门会给想要参加海国外大学交换生项目或夏季的语言课程的学生提供资金支持，宽敞的宿舍、先进的教学设施、健身房的维护良好的设施、食堂品种丰富和可口的食物、免费巴士、免费旅游、免费门票等各种免费提供给学生的服务等等，这些都是与学生生活息息相关的能够提升幸福感的。

2，Student-to-faculty ratio: An important thing to remember is that this ratio can be skewed in so many ways, especially at larger research universities where professors tend to focus their attention on graduate students. Some alternative ways to see what personal attention undergraduates receive are small classes (often donning titles like “freshmen seminars” or “tutorials”), how many undergraduates complete research with faculty, and what sort of events the college promotes for faculty to spend with undergraduates (perhaps funding to have a meal or coffee together).

2，学生与教师的比例：学校师生比、小班授课比例是衡量学校教学质量的指标之一。大学里，一节课的上课人数，少到只有个位数，多到四五百人的情况都有。对于学生来说，师生比低自然更有利于自己的学习和研究。如果单单从这个比例中可能无法看出教授与本科生的比例，特别是在大型研究型大学，教授倾向于将注意力集中在研究生身上。那么另一种方法来看本科生接受的关注度就是小班教学（通常是“新生研讨会”或“辅导班”等标题），有多少本科生完成了科学研究，以及学校为了鼓励教职工与学生相处，举办了什么样的活动（比如资助教职工和学生一起吃饭或咖啡）。

3，Salary Potential: This figure is often higher at more technical universities (that is, with mostly engineering students). Perhaps a poignant example would be that both these measures are higher at Harvey Mudd College (one of the “Claremont Colleges”) than at Harvard. Still, which school have you heard of? If one of your criteria is how much your college degree will finance your future, then you may reconsider how you look at prestige—or at least in what you decide to major. 

3，毕业生薪酬水平：技术类为重心的大学（即大部分工程学生）的毕业生工资通常更高。你也许会惊奇的发现，Harvey Mudd College的毕业生工资比Harvard毕业生更高。如果你选择大学和专业的标准之一是高薪资，那么可以浏览PayScale公司公布的2016-2017美国大学薪资排名。PayScale成立于2002年,发展至今,已拥有世界上最大、最完善的雇员薪酬数据库。根据毕业生的薪资对超过1000所美国大学进行排名，给选校的同学们提供了一个直观的参考。

4，Alumni Association: an alumni association is a group of graduates from a particular university who set up an independent group for the purpose of organizing social and university-related events. These associations often organize social events, publish newsletters,and raise funds for the university. They also serve as a way for graduates tomaintain connections to not only their university, but also with their fellow graduates. Additionally, these groups usually seek to support and help new alumni in the local area, and provide a venue for which both personal and business relationships can be established between graduates of that particular university.

4，校友协会：校友协会是一群来自特定大学的毕业生，他们组织一个独立的小组来组织社会活动和大学相关活动，比如他们经常组织社会活动，发布新闻杂志，和为大学筹集资金。他们也是毕业生与大学保持联系的桥梁。此外，校友协会通常会给新的校友提供支持和帮助，并会提供平台，帮助该大学的毕业生之间建立个人和商业关系。

The one concern for parents and students is that if the student pursues their university education in a foreign country, the student will not have the opportunity to establish social and business contacts in China. Although there is some truth in this, it does not take into account that certain US universities have huge numbers of Chinese students and because these Chinese students find themselves in a foreign country and needing the help of their peers, very often, the bonds that they establish with one another are often deeper than the ties built between students studying locally.

家长和学生可能会担忧，如果学生在国外大学接受教育，学生将没有机会在中国建立社交和商业联系。虽然有些道理，但没有考虑到某些美国大学有大量的中国学生就读，这些中国学生发现自己身处异国他乡，会需要同伴的帮助，因此他们彼此建立的联系往往比，比美国本土学生之间建立的纽带更深。

Upon graduation, many of these same students return to China to start their careers. During their professional lives, they continue to help and support the friends they made in university both socially and professionally. For this reason, it is very important that Chinese students do not overlook the strength of the alumni network of US universities here in China. US universities with strong alumni networks inChina include: University of Southern California, New York University, University of Michigan, Boston University, Michigan State University, University of Illinois, Purdue University, University of Texas-Austin, Indiana University.

毕业后，很多同学返回中国开始他们的职业生涯。在他们的职业生涯中，他们继续帮助和支持他们在大学的社交场合和职业场合交到的朋友。因此，非常重要的一点是，中国学生不要忽视在中国各地区的美国大学校友网络的力量。在中国拥有强大校友网络的美国大学包括：南加州大学，纽约大学，密歇根大学，波士顿大学，密歇根州立大学，伊利诺伊大学，普渡大学，德克萨斯奥斯汀大学，印第安纳大学等。而且越来越多的国外大学开始重视和发展中国的校友网络。