Top 100 US University Ranking in 2024

Featuring over 1000 universities and colleges in US, this year’s university rankings are our largest ever. Each school has been assessed according to five key metrics which are:

1. Academic Reputation
2. Employer Reputation
3. Faculty/Student Ratio
4. Citations per faculty
5. International Faculty Ratio
6. International Student Ratio

Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their own countries’ borders and to compare key aspects of schools’ research missions. Please note that this ranking is only for schools in the US.

Here are the top 100 US university ranked in 2024.

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