The Top Universities in the United States rankings provide an information database identifying the best universities in the United States.
Here is our ranking: the best universities in the US in the most prestigious, respected world university rankings (including position in the world ranking ).
Top Universities in USA – Shanghai List 2021
- 1 Harvard University
- 2Stanford University
- 4Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 5 University of California, Berkeley
- 6 Princeton University
- 8 Columbia University
- 9California Institute of Technology
- 10 University of Chicago
- 11 Yale University
- 12CornellUniversity
- 14 University of California, Los Angeles
- 15 University of Pennsylvania
- 16 Johns Hopkins University
- 18 University of California, San Diego
- 19 University of Washington
- 20 University of California, San Francisco
- 23 Washington University in St. Louis
- 26 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
- 27 New York University
- 29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 31 University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 32 Duke University
- 34 Northwestern University
- 40 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- 41The University of Texas at Austin
Best Universities in the USA – QS 2022
- 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- = 3Stanford University
- 5Harvard University
- 6 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- 10 University of Chicago
- 13 University of Pennsylvania
- =14 Yale University
- 19 Columbia University
- 20 Princeton University
- 21CornellUniversity
- =23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- 25 Johns Hopkins University
- 30 Northwestern University
- 32 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
- 40 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 42 New York University (NYU)
- 48 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- 52 Duke University
- =53Carnegie Mellon University
- 60 Brown University
- 67 University of Texas at Austin
- =75 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- =82 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- =85 University of Washington
- 88 Georgia Institute of Technology
Best American Universities – Times Higher Education 2022
- =2 California Institute of Technology
- =2 Harvard University
- 4Stanford University
- =5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 7 Princeton University
- 8 University of California, Berkeley
- 9 Yale University
- 10The University of Chicago
- 11 Columbia University
- =13 Johns Hopkins University
- =13 University of Pennsylvania
- 20 University of California, Los Angeles
- 22 Cornell University
- 23 Duke University
- =24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- =24 Northwestern University
- 26 New York University
- 28Carnegie Mellon University
- 29 University of Washington
- 34 University of California, San Diego
- 45 Georgia Institute of Technology
- 47 University of Texas at Austin
- 48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 51 Washington University in St. Louis
- 52 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill