Ranked: 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 Hopefully, this ranking will help you decide where to study. For more information about US universities, sign up to our site (it's free and takes less than two minutes) and enjoy exclusive member benefits, including access to helpful tips and guides.

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