QS Rankings 2026

Best Universities in United States

Discover and compare the top 192 universities in United States by QS World Rankings 2026

192

Ranked Universities

Highest Rank

27.0

Avg. Score

29.7

Academic Rep.

192 universities in United StatesPage 1 / 7

World	Local	University	City	Score	Academic	Employer
#1	#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Cambridge	100.0	100.0	100.0
#3	#2	Stanford University	Stanford	98.9	100.0	100.0
#5	#3	Harvard University	Cambridge	97.7	100.0	100.0
#10	#4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	Pasadena	94.3	98.3	99.2
#13	#5	University of Chicago	Chicago	93.0	99.8	99.3
#15	#6	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	92.5	98.9	98.7
#16	#7	Cornell University	Ithaca	91.6	99.5	98.8
#=17	#8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	Berkeley	91.2	100.0	100.0
#21	#9	Yale University	New Haven	90.4	100.0	100.0
#24	#10	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	89.7	93.2	79.2
#=25	#11	Princeton University	Princeton	89.4	100.0	99.8
#=38	#12	Columbia University	New York City	85.6	99.9	99.9
#=42	#13	Northwestern University	Evanston	85.1	92.2	89.4
#45	#14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor	84.7	99.3	98.5
#46	#15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Los Angeles	84.4	100.0	100.0
#52	#16	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	82.3	80.1	94.4
#55	#17	New York University (NYU)	New York City	81.1	98.6	99.9
#62	#18	Duke University	Durham	79.0	92.9	91.0
#66	#19	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	San Diego	76.9	94.0	80.2
#68	#20	University of Texas at Austin	Austin	76.4	97.6	96.8
#69	#21	Brown University	Providence	76.2	72.4	64.3
#=70	#22	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	75.9	91.7	91.5
#81	#23	University of Washington	Seattle	72.7	90.1	74.8
#=82	#24	Pennsylvania State University	University Park	72.6	86.1	85.8
#=88	#25	Boston University	Boston	71.1	75.3	86.7
#=88	#26	Purdue University	West Lafayette	71.1	74.3	92.7
#=110	#27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison	66.6	85.7	63.1
#=114	#28	University of California, Davis	Davis	66.3	72.7	70.1
#=119	#29	Rice University	Houston	65.7	50.6	51.0
#=123	#30	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta	65.5	76.0	92.8