Top 100 universities in USA-2020

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Published: 2 Dec 2019 • 8:42 PM BST Updated: 05/06/2026 4:15 PM

According to the QS World University Rankings-2020, here compiled top 100 US universities and colleges. This rank generated in 2019.

Top 100 US universities
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	Princeton University
7	Cornell University
8	University of Pennsylvania
9	Yale University
10	Columbia University
11	University of Michigan
12	Johns Hopkins University
13	Duke University
14	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
15	Northwestern University
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
17	New York University
18	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
19	Carnegie Mellon University
20	University of Wisconsin-Madison
21	Brown University
22	University of Texas at Austin
23	University of Washington
24	Georgia Institute of Technology
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
26	Rice University
27	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
28	Pennsylvania State University
29	Boston University
30	The Ohio State University
31	University of California, Davis
32	Washington University in St. Louis
33	Purdue University
34	University of Southern California
35	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
36	University of Maryland, College Park
37	University of Pittsburgh
38	Michigan State University
=39	Emory University
=39	University of Minnesota
41	University of Florida
42	University of Rochester
43	Case Western Reserve University
44	Texas A&M University
45	University of Virginia
46	Vanderbilt University
47	University of Colorado Boulder
48	Dartmouth College
49	University of Notre Dame
50	Arizona State University
51	University of California, Irvine
52	Georgetown University
53	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
54	Tufts University
55	Rutgers University - New Brunswick
=55	The University of Arizona
57	University of Miami
58	North Carolina State University
59	University of Massachusetts Amherst
60	Indiana University Bloomington
61	University of Hawai'i at Mañoa
62	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
63	George Washington University
64	University at Buffalo SUNY
65	Northeastern University
66	University of Utah
=67	Stony Brook University, State University of New York
=67	The Katz School at Yeshiva University
69	University of California, Santa Cruz
70	University of Kansas
71	University of Connecticut
72	R ensselaer Polytechnic University
73	University of Colorado, Denver
74	Wake Forest University
75	Washington State University
76	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
77	Tulane University
=78	Illinois Institute of Technology
=78	University of Iowa
80	Boston College
81	Colorado State University
82	Florida State University
83	University of California, Riverside
84	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
85	Oregon State University
86	Brandeis University
87	The University of Georgia
88	Wayne State University
89	University of Delaware
90	University of Texas Dallas
91	Iowa State University
92	Clark University
=93	Lehigh University
=93	University of Missouri, Columbia
=95	Drexel University
=95	The New School
=95	University of Cincinnati
=95	University of Nebraska
=95	University of South Carolina at Columbia
=99	University of Massachusetts, Boston
=99	University of Oklahoma
=99	University of Vermont

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