The United States of America found on the North America map holds over 5,000 Universities and Colleges in the various states. Universities in the U.S. constantly dominate the top-ranking list making them the most prestigious and reputable law schools, medical schools, and business schools in the world respectively. 

Ranked: The top 100 universities in the United States

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

Basis of United States 2023 College Ranking

Students can use these rankings to compare universities globally, regionally and within their own country as well as their field of study.

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, U.S. News will release the 2022-2023 Best Global Universities rankings which may focus on schools academic research and reputation, not their separate undergraduate or graduate programs. Students can use these rankings to compare universities including U.S. colleges – globally, regionally and within their own country as well as their respective field of study.

The overall Best Global Universities ranking will encompass 2,000 top universities, up from 1,750 last year. The overall ranking includes universities from 95 countries with a little increase from last year’s 90 countries. In addition, there will be 47 separate subject rankings in fields like clinical medicine, computer science and engineering, up from 43 last year.

U.S. News will once again publish five regional rankings of the top universities in Africa, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe and Latin America. In addition, country-specific rankings will be released again this year. In the 2022-2023 edition, U.S. News will publish more than 45 country rankings – including for these 12 countries with large numbers of ranked schools: Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

U.S. News will publish four new subject area rankings in the following fields:

1. Artificial intelligence (100 schools ranked)
2. Education and educational research (100 schools ranked)
3. Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (100 schools ranked)
4. Water resources (100 schools ranked)

U.S. News will continue to publish the 43 subject area rankings included in last year’s edition. These are:

1. Agricultural sciences
2. Arts and humanities
3. Biology and biochemistry
4. Biotechnology and applied microbiology
5. Cardiac and cardiovascular systems
6. Cell biology
7. Chemical engineering
8. Chemistry
9. Civil engineering
10. Clinical medicine
11. Computer science
12. Condensed matter physics
13. Economics and business
14. Electrical and electronic engineering
15. Endocrinology and metabolism
16. Energy and fuels
17. Engineering
18. Environment/ecology
19. Food Science and technology
20. Gastroenterology and hepatology
21. Geosciences
22. Immunology
23. Infectious diseases
24. Materials science
25. Mathematics
26. Mechanical engineering
27. Microbiology
28. Molecular biology and genetics
29. Nanoscience and nanotechnology
30. Neuroscience and behavior
31. Oncology
32. Optics
33. Pharmacology and toxicology
34. Physical Chemistry
35. Physics
36. Plant and animal science
37. Polymer science
38. Psychiatry/psychology
39. Public, environmental and occupational health
40. Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
41. Social sciences and public health
42. Space science
43. Surgery