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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