Top 100 Ranked Universities In USA

The USA is the world’s leading international study destination, consistently dominating the global rankings. Top US universities make up almost 29% of the top 100 positions in the ranking, with again 29 US universities in the top global 300. Read on to focus on this year’s top 10, plus how the other 147 top US universities are highlighted in the ranking. Below are the top 10 Universities in the USA as per the QS Ranking table for the Year 2020 –23. 202 universities in USA are included among the world’s best in the edition of QS World University Ranking 2023

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tops the QS World University Rankings 2020-2023, standing 1^st for the 8^th year running. Situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT is surely known for its physical sciences and engineering, but it’s also progressively well-respected in other subject fields in the social sciences, arts and humanities.

2. Stanford University

Stanford University

Stanford University ranks 3rd in the world in the 2020-2023 tables. Situated in the center of the famous Silicon Valley, Stanford University is especially well-known for its business courses – with an alumni community full of outstanding entrepreneurs and attained the top position for environmental in the QS World University Rankings.

3. Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University halts the unceasing trio of US universities at the top of the QS World University Rankings this year. Harvard is the very earliest university in the US, registering back to 1636, and attained the top position for accounting and finance in the QS World University Rankings by Faculty 2023.

4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Caltech

Retaining 6^thplace in the overall world ranking this year is the California Institute of Technology, commonly known as Caltech, situated in the city of Pasadena, California. The smallest US university in the top 10, Caltech knocks above its weight – particularly in scientific and technical subjects.

5. University of Chicago

University of Chicago

Ranked US and 10^th in the world this year, the University of Chicago is related with 89 Nobel Prize winners, and its physics department is admitted for developing the world’s first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction.

6. University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, known as Penn, is ranked 13^th in the world this year. Situated in Philadelphia, it’s one of the other institutions which is highly renowned for life sciences and medicine, ranking 1^st place in this year’s inaugural ranking of the world’s top nursing schools.

7. Princeton University

Princeton

Princeton University has again retained its position at 16^th place this year. It’s one of the oldest US universities, it’s specifically known for academic excellence in mathematics, achieving 4^th place for this in the faculty rankings.

8. Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is ranked 18^th in the world this year. Yale University was founded by English Puritans in 1701, making it the third-oldest higher education institution in the United States. It’s especially well-known for its academic excellence in translational medicine and research.

9. Cornell University

Cornell University

Situated in Ithaca, New York, Cornell University ranks 20^th in the world this year. Having been awarded the nation’s first veterinary medicine degree, it currently ranks 5^th in the world for veterinary science in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023.

10. Columbia University

Columbia University is ranked 22nd in the world this year. Established in 1754, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established as King’s College by the royal charter of George II of Great Britain and renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolutionary War.

List of Top One Hundread Eighty US Universities in the World Ranking in QS World Ranking Table.

Sr No	Ranking	University Name	County	Points
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0
2	2	Stanford University	United States	100.0
3	3	Harvard University	United States	100.0
4	4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	96.7
5	9	University of Chicago	United States	99.2
6	16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	96.2
7	17	Yale University	United States	99.9
8	19	Columbia University	United States	99.6
9	12	Princeton University	United States	99.9
10	18	Cornell University	United States	98.4
11	21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	98.6
12	25=	Johns Hopkins University	United States	87.6
13	29	Northwestern University	United States	84.4
14	30	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	100.0
15	36	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	100.0
16	35	New York University (NYU)	United States	95.9
17	54	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	91.0
18	42	Duke University	United States	86.9
19	51	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	72.7
20	60	Brown University	United States	58.1
21	71	University of Texas at Austin	United States	93.6
22	65	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	83.4
23	82	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	86.4
24	72=	University of Washington	United States	85.4
25	80	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	67.8
26	89	Rice University	United States	40.0
27	101=	Pennsylvania State University	United States	75.9
28	95	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	66.3
29	105	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	41.3
30	112	University of California, Davis	United States	66.9
31	110=	Boston University	United States	62.0
32	121=	University of Southern California	United States	56.2
33	109	Purdue University	United States	63.3
34	108	The Ohio State University	United States	61.9
35	152=	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	57.8
36	165=	University of Rochester	United States	25.2
37	157	Michigan State University	United States	61.0
38	152=	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	51.9
39	158	Emory University	United States	25.0
40	162=	Case Western Reserve University	United States	19.0
41	156	University of Pittsburgh	United States	42.3
42	169=	Texas A&M University	United States	61.5
43	162=	University of Florida	United States	49.7
44	177=	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	61.8
45	203=	Dartmouth College	United States	19.5
46	220=	Arizona State University	United States	45.3
47	187=	Vanderbilt University	United States	25.9
48	211=	University of Notre Dame	United States	28.0
49	217=	University of Virginia	United States	36.5
50	210	University of California, Irvine	United States	41.5
51	270=	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	41.4
52	230=	Georgetown University	United States	32.4
53	230=	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	36.8
54	341	Yeshiva University	United States	2.6
55	258	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	39.2
56	273=	The University of Arizona	United States	41.3
57	260=	Tufts University	United States	19.6
58	256=	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	United States	43.5
59	295=	North Carolina State University	United States	30.4
60	320	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	37.8
61	291=	University of Miami	United States	24.2
62	333=	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	United States	16.2
63	362=	Northeastern University	United States	20.7
64	326=	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	28.5
65	416=	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	19.7
66	353=	George Washington University	United States	27.2
67	333=	University of Utah	United States	16.8
68	501-510	University of Connecticut	United States	15.8
69	373=	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States	20.1
70	383=	University of Kansas	United States	15.3
71	346=	University at Buffalo SUNY	United States	18.8
72	449=	University of California, Riverside	United States	17.9
73	398=	University of Colorado, Denver	United States	8.3
74	411=	Washington State University	United States	27.0
75	380=	Wake Forest University	United States	5.8
76	443=	Colorado State University	United States	19.5
77	470=	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	9.2
78	414=	Tulane University	United States	10.1
79	426=	Illinois Institute of Technology	United States	15.1
80	446=	Brandeis University	United States	10.9
81	420=	University of Iowa	United States	20.7
82		Colorado School of Mines	United States	8.2
83	456=	Florida State University	United States	28.3
84	483=	University of Missouri, Columbia	United States	16.5
85	531-540	University of Texas Dallas	United States	15.5
86	454=	Boston College	United States	22.3
87	541-550	Iowa State University	United States	19.3
88	601-650	Missouri University of Science and Technology	United States	3.4
89	477=	Wayne State University	United States	9.8
90	551-560	Lehigh University	United States	6.0
91	499=	Oregon State University	United States	17.5
92	541-550	University of Delaware	United States	10.5
93	501-510	The University of Georgia	United States	22.1
94	432=	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	United States	10.9
95	561-570	The New School	United States	13.8
96	561-570	University of Nebraska – Lincoln	United States	10.8
97	581-590	University of South Florida	United States	13.2
98	581-590	Clark University	United States	3.6
99	601-650	Smith College	United States	3.6
100	601-650	University of Cincinnati	United States	13.1
101	571-580	University of South Carolina	United States	16.4
102	651-700	American University	United States	15.9
103	651-700	College of William and Mary	United States	9.0
104	601-650	Drexel University	United States	9.2
105	651-700	Howard University	United States	6.0
106	601-650	Michigan Technological University	United States	5.8
107	601-650	Syracuse University	United States	14.1
108	601-650	University of Kentucky	United States	11.5
109	651-700	University of Massachusetts Boston	United States	13.5
110	601-650	University of New Mexico	United States	14.3
111	651-700	University of Oklahoma	United States	9.5
112	601-650	University of Oregon	United States	17.0
113	601-650	University of Vermont	United States	3.4
114	651-700	City University of New York	United States	27.2
115	751-800	New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)	United States	4.5
116	701-750	Stevens Institute of Technology	United States	2.9
117	701-750	University of Houston	United States	14.9
118	651-700	Virginia Commonwealth University	United States	7.1
119	751-800	Clarkson University	United States	1.0
120	751-800	Georgia State University	United States	13.1
121	701-750	Temple University	United States	13.7
122	751-800	University at Albany SUNY	United States	8.8
123	701-750	University of Central Florida	United States	15.3
124	651-700	University of Denver	United States	5.6
125	701-750	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States	11.4
126	701-750	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	United States	3.8
127	801-1000	Auburn University	United States	7.2
128	801-1000	Binghamton University SUNY	United States	7.4
129	801-1000	Clemson University	United States	8.6
130	751-800	Florida International University	United States	14.4
131	801-1000	Fordham University	United States	6.7
132	801-1000	George Mason University	United States	9.2
133	751-800	Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis	United States	8.3
134	701-750	Kansas State University	United States	10.3
135	701-750	Louisiana State University	United States	9.9
136	801-1000	Loyola University Chicago	United States	8.2
137	751-800	Oklahoma State University	United States	9.9
138	751-800	Rutgers University–Newark	United States	12.1
139		Seattle University	United States	5.0
140	701-750	Southern Methodist University	United States	5.6
141	801-1000	Texas Tech University	United States	10.8
142	801-1000	The University of Alabama	United States	9.4
143		University of Hartford	United States	4.8
144	801-1000	University of Mississippi	United States	3.7
145		University of Missouri, Kansas City	United States	5.3
146	801-1000	University of New Hampshire	United States	5.8
147		University of Texas at San Antonio	United States	7.3
148	751-800	University of Tulsa	United States	2.5
149		University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	United States	8.6
150	801-1000	University of Wyoming	United States	2.4
151		West Virginia University	United States	6.1
152	801-1000	Baylor University	United States	5.7
153	1001+	Brigham Young University	United States	7.5
154		Florida Atlantic University – Boca Raton	United States	5.1
155	801-1000	Kent State University	United States	6.3
156	1001+	Marquette University	United States	3.3
157	1001+	Miami University	United States	4.2
158		Mississippi State University	United States	5.6
159	1001+	Northern Arizona University	United States	6.8
160	801-1000	Ohio University	United States	9.2
161		Portland State University	United States	4.7
162		Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)	United States	4.9
163	801-1000	San Diego State University	United States	4.6
164		The University of Texas at Arlington	United States	6.6
165	1001+	University of Arkansas Fayetteville	United States	7.6
166	1001+	University of Montana Missoula	United States	2.4
167		University of North Carolina at Charlotte	United States	6.1
168		University of North Texas	United States	7.6
169		University of Rhode Island	United States	4.8
170	801-1000	University of San Diego	United States	7.6
171	1001+	University of San Francisco	United States	8.0
172		University of South Alabama (USA)	United States	4.9
173		University of Texas El Paso	United States	4.9
174	801-1000	University of the Pacific	United States	2.4
175	801-1000	Utah State University	United States	6.6
176		Western Michigan University	United States	7.2
177		Indiana State University	United States	6.0