Research On Discipline Competitiveness Of Top Universities In The United States:Structure Layout And Quality Development

Discipline is the basic organizational unit of instruction and research activities and the foundation of the existence and development of the university,the level of discipline development directly reflects the university’s reputation,characteristics and core competitiveness.The competitiveness of discipline is the comparative advantage in the process of discipline’s formation and development,which includes both the discipline itself and those factors that support the discipline’s development.The American top universities have a high reputation in the global higher education system and fully demonstrated the leading position of higher education power.Exploring the discipline arrangement competitiveness and discipline fatocrs competitiveness of the American top universities,on the one hand,it is helpful for the China universities to find a reasonable path to optimize the discipline arrangement in the process of first-class university and academic program.On the other hand,it is helpful for government management to make scientific decisions based on the data analysis and to play a macro-management and overall control function.The traditional study of discipline competitiveness isolated“structural layo ut" and "quality development",at the same time,focuses on static indicators,which makes the formation mechanism of discipline competitiveness keeping on the stat e of "Black Box.Around the national strategic requirements of the double world-class buliding,this paper construct a integral“Structure-Quality”research fra mework of the disciplinary competitiveness,and the empirical analysis of 24 A merican top universities will be done.Results can be summarized as follows:reg arding of the structure layout:On the magnitude of the width and narrow,large span o f disciplines,integrated structure,and individuation are the specifications of the Am erican top university;On the density of width and narrow:Some comprehensive univ ersity are distributed like star cluster,and some Sole University are distributed like t he dot.When it comes to the quality of the science development:ESI really have a go od rank,the productivity,impact,creativity and also development power of the scienc e research are all outstanding.Compare to the C9 universities of our country,A propo se of "adjustment and optimization of discipline structure layout,basedon the f orefront of world discipline development,promote the international influence of disciplines,Increase the support of basic disciplines,enhance the development of interdisciplinary and build a professional research team with high level"is ne cessary.