塔尔萨大学｜University of Tulsa

塔尔萨大学是一所四年制私立大学，获《美国新闻与世界报道》评为三级大学，学术声誉全美排第168名。这所成立于1894年的私立大学，获《纽约时报大学指南》给予三颗星的学术评分，这所水准逐年提高的学府，尚不算难考取。大学最好的是商科管理，有25%学生选读，此外，化学工程和石油工程都好，前者是美国第一起薪最高的学科。

二、主要排名

USNews2008年美国大学综合排名(本科)第91

美国大学2008年Petroleum Engineering 石油工程专业排名第4

美国大学2007年Petroleum Engineering 石油工程专业排名第4

三、英文简介

1.History

The University of Tulsa was founded in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls in 1882 under the leadership of Alice Mary Robertson, but was re-chartered as the Henry Kendall College in 1894 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Women s Board of Home Missions. In 1907 the college moved to its current site in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A university was formed in 1920 when the college merged with the proposed McFarlin College to become the University of Tulsa.

2.Academics

The University of Tulsa is noted for having one of the world s premier programs in petroleum engineering, and has distinguished programs in English, computer science, natural sciences, Clinical and I/O Psychology, and several engineering disciplines. The university also maintains a school of law, which is one of the few to specialize in Native American legal issues. The University of Tulsa College of Law Review ranks in the top 15% of most cited legal periodicals as ranked by Washington and Lee University.

Currently, there are six colleges, programs, and departments at the University of Tulsa:

Henry Kendall College of Arts Sciences

Collins College of Business (formerly College of Business Administration)

College of Engineering and Natural Sciences

College of Law

Graduate School

Division of Continuing Education

3.Reputation and rankings

In 2008 Tulsa was ranked ninth in Quality of Life by the Princeton Review s The Best 366 Colleges guide. The University of Tulsa also placed sixth among all colleges for Happiest Students, was ranked eleventh in the Lots of Class/Race Interaction category, and in Town-Gown Relations Tulsa was ranked fifth in the country. In the 2006 edition, the university was described as follows: The University of Tulsa is one of the sleeper gems of the Great Plains, a private school large enough to house numerous top-flight programs but small enough to facilitate one-on-one instruction provided in a homey atmosphere.

TU is one of 150 colleges to be included in the inaugural edition of Colleges of Distinction and is also included in The Unofficial Biased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges, 2005 edition. Cosmo Girl magazine named TU one of the top 50 schools in the country for women in its October 2004 edition. U.S. News and World Report also ranks TU as a top 100 national university, the only Oklahoma university to make the list.

The University of Tulsa is known for the large number of National Merit scholars in attendance, one in every ten undergraduate students. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education for 2004 The University of Tulsa s freshman class ranked 9th nationally among research universities in the number of National Merit Scholars per capita.