Ranked: The top 100 universities in the USA

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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