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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This article was originally published in April 2017 . It was last updated in January 2024
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As Head of Content, Craig is responsible for all articles and guides published across TopUniversities and TopMBA. He has nearly 10 years of experience writing for a student audience and extensive knowledge of universities and study programs around the world.
What is the
1 ranked university?
1. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. Harvard University is the standard by which all other research universities are measured.
What is the best university ranking list?
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What are the top 200 universities in the world?
Harvard University. United States|Cambridge [U.S.] ... .
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] United States|Cambridge [U.S.] ... .
Stanford University. United States|Stanford. ... .
University of California Berkeley. ... .
University of Oxford. ... .
University of Washington Seattle. ... .
Columbia University. ... .
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Is a top 100 university good?
This means that making it to the global top 100 list of universities is a huge achievement. Every university in this list is a top-class institution, and when you're looking for a university to spend your student years in, this list is a great place to start.