The top 100 universities in the USA

 

The university or college you choose to go to can have a major impact on the rest of your life, so it's probably a good idea to do some research first. To help with the process, we've compiled a ranking of the best 100 US universities and colleges, according to the recently released QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings 2023: Top 100 US Universities
Rank	University
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2	Stanford University
3	Harvard University
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
5	University of Chicago
6	University of Pennsylvania
7	Princeton University
8	Yale University
9	Cornell University
10	Columbia University
11	Johns Hopkins University
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
13	University of California Berkeley (UCB)
14	Northwestern University
15	New York University (NYU)
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
17	Duke University
18	Carnegie Mellon University
19	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
20	Brown University
21	University of Texas at Austin
22	University of Washington
23	University of Wisconsin-Madison
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
25	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
26	Pennsylvania State University
27	Rice University
=28	University of California, Davis (UCD)
=28	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
30	Boston University
31	Washington University in St. Louis
32	Purdue University
33	University of Southern California
34	Ohio State University
35	University of Rochester
36	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
37	Emory University
38	Michigan State University
=39	Texas A&M University
=39	University of Maryland, College Park
41	Case Western Reserve University
42	University of Pittsburgh
43	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
44	University of Florida
45	Vanderbilt University
46	Dartmouth College
47	Arizona State University
48	University of California, Irvine (UCI)
49	University of Notre Dame
50	Yeshiva University
=51	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
=51	University of Virginia
53	University of Arizona
54	Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
55	Georgetown University
56	University of Miami
=57	North Carolina State University
=57	Tufts University
=59	University of Colorado at Boulder
=59	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
61	Indiana University Bloomington
62	University of Connecticut
63	George Washington University
64	Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)
65	University of Kansas
66	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
67	University of Hawai'i at Manoa
68	Northeastern University
69	University of Utah
70	Colorado State University
71	Stony Brook University
72	University at Buffalo SUNY
73	University of Colorado, Denver
74	Wake Forest University
=75	Illinois Institute of Technology
=75	Washington State University University of New Mexico
77	University of California, Riverside (UCR)
78	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
=79	University of Alaska Fairbanks
=79	University of Iowa
81	Tulane University
82	Iowa State University
83	Brandeis University
=84	Colorado School of Mines
=84	Missouri University of Science and Technology
=84	Swarthmore College
=87	Florida State University
=87	University of Missouri, Columbia
=89	The New School
=89	University of Texas Dallas
91	Boston College
=92	University of Delaware
=92	University of Massachusetts, Boston
94	Lehigh University
=95	Oregon State University
=95	Saint Louis University
=95	University of Georgia
=95	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
=95	University of South Florida
=95	Wayne State University
=95	Wesleyan University

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