United States Top University Rank 2025

National Rank	University Name	Established	University City	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1861	Cambridge, Massachusetts	USA
2	Stanford University	1885	Stanford, California	USA
3	Harvard University	1636	Cambridge, Massachusetts	USA
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	1891	Pasadena, California	USA
5	Princeton University	1746	Princeton, New Jersey	USA
6	Yale University	1701	New Haven, Connecticut	USA
7	Columbia University	1754	New York City, New York	USA
8	University of Chicago	1890	Chicago, Illinois	USA
9	University of Pennsylvania	1740	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	USA
10	Cornell University	1865	Ithaca, New York	USA

National Rank	University Name	Established	University City	Country
11	University of California, Berkeley	1868	Berkeley, California	USA
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	1919	Los Angeles, California	USA
13	University of California, San Diego	1960	La Jolla, California	USA
14	University of California, Santa Barbara	1891	Santa Barbara, California	USA
15	Johns Hopkins University	1876	Baltimore, Maryland	USA
16	Northwestern University	1851	Evanston, Illinois	USA
17	Duke University	1838	Durham, North Carolina	USA
18	Brown University	1764	Providence, Rhode Island	USA
19	Dartmouth College	1769	Hanover, New Hampshire	USA
20	Rice University	1912	Houston, Texas	USA

National Rank	University Name	Established	University City	Country
21	Vanderbilt University	1873	Nashville, Tennessee	USA
22	University of Notre Dame	1842	Notre Dame, Indiana	USA
23	Georgetown University	1789	Washington, D.C.	USA
24	Carnegie Mellon University	1900	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	USA
25	New York University (NYU)	1831	New York City, New York	USA
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1789	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	USA
27	Georgia Institute of Technology	1885	Atlanta, Georgia	USA
28	The University of Texas at Austin	1883	Austin, Texas	USA
29	University of Washington	1861	Seattle, Washington	USA
30	University of Wisconsin–Madison	1848	Madison, Wisconsin	USA

National Rank	University Name	Established	University City	Country
31	University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign	1867	Urbana–Champaign, Illinois	USA
32	Purdue University	1869	West Lafayette, Indiana	USA
33	Pennsylvania State University	1855	University Park, Pennsylvania	USA
34	The Ohio State University	1870	Columbus, Ohio	USA
35	University of California, Davis	1905	Davis, California	USA
36	University of California, Irvine	1965	Irvine, California	USA
37	University of Southern California (USC)	1880	Los Angeles, California	USA
38	Emory University	1836	Atlanta, Georgia	USA
39	Washington University in St. Louis	1853	St. Louis, Missouri	USA
40	Boston University	1839	Boston, Massachusetts	USA

National Rank	University Name	Established	University City	Country
41	Tufts University	1852	Medford, Massachusetts	USA
42	University of Rochester	1850	Rochester, New York	USA
43	University of Virginia	1819	Charlottesville, Virginia	USA
44	University of Florida	1853	Gainesville, Florida	USA
45	University of Maryland, College Park	1856	College Park, Maryland	USA
46	Michigan State University	1855	East Lansing, Michigan	USA
47	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	1851	Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota	USA
48	Texas A&M University	1876	College Station, Texas	USA
49	North Carolina State University	1887	Raleigh, North Carolina	USA
50	University of California, Santa Cruz	1965	Santa Cruz, California	USA