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 2024.

QS World University Rankings 2024:Top 100 US Universities
Rank	University
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2	Harvard University
3	Stanford University
4	University of California Berkeley (UCB)
5	University of Chicago
6	University of Pennsylvania
7	Cornell University
8	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
9	Yale University
10	Princeton University
11	Columbia University
12	Johns Hopkins University
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
15	New York University (NYU)
16	Northwestern University
17	Carnegie Mellon University
18	Duke University
19	University of Texas at Austin
20	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
21	University of Washington
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
23	Brown University
24	Pennsylvania State University
25	Boston University
26	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
27	Purdue University
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison
29	University of Southern California
=30	University of California, Davis (UCD)
=30	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
32	Texas A&M University
33	Michigan State University
34	Rice University
35	Ohio State University
36	Washington University in St. Louis
37	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
38	University of Florida
39	University of Maryland, College Park
40	Arizona State University
41	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
42	Emory University
43	University of Pittsburgh
44	University of Rochester
45	Dartmouth College
46	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
47	Case Western Reserve University
48	University of Virginia
49	Vanderbilt University
50	University of Colorado at Boulder
51	University of California, Irvine (UCI)
52	North Carolina State University
53	University of Miami
54	University of Arizona
55	Georgetown University
56	Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
57	Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)
58	University of Notre Dame
59	Indiana University Bloomington
60	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
61	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
62	George Washington University
63	Yeshiva University
64	Northeastern University
65	Tufts University
66	University of Hawai’i at Manoa
67	Stony Brook University
68	Iowa State University
69	University of California, Riverside (UCR)
70	Colorado State University
71	University of Kansas
72	Washington State University
73	University of Utah
74	University of Connecticut
75	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
76	Florida State University
77	Colorado School of Mines
78	Illinois Institute of Technology
79	Missouri University of Science and Technology
=80	University at Buffalo SUNY
=80	University of Iowa
82	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
83	University of Delaware
84	Oregon State University
85	University of Georgia
86	University of Texas Dallas
87	City University of New York
88	Lehigh University
89	University of Nebraska – Lincoln
90	Florida International University
91	University of South Florida
92	University of South Carolina
93	University of Missouri, Columbia
94	University of Central Florida
95	Tulane University
96	Drexel University
97	Stevens Institute of Technology
=98	Boston College
=98	University of New Mexico
=100	New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
=100	The New School
=100	University of Houston
=100	University of Oklahoma

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