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.

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World	Local	University	City	Score	Academic	Employer
#=140	#31	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	63.2	72.2	55.5
#144	#32	Texas A&M University	College Station	63.0	72.9	81.5
#146	#33	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	62.6	61.2	69.6
#161	#34	Michigan State University	East Lansing	60.9	67.3	62.9
#167	#35	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis	59.6	46.5	25.7
#=173	#36	Arizona State University	Tempe	59.1	63.9	63.3
#179	#37	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	Santa Barbara	58.7	65.3	32.4
#182	#38	Emory University	Atlanta	57.7	34.5	37.7
#190	#39	The Ohio State University	Columbus	56.9	71.1	63.0
#=207	#40	University of Maryland, College Park	College Park	54.9	57.2	51.8
#210	#41	University of Minnesota (System)	Minneapolis	54.8	68.6	49.4
#=212	#42	University of Florida	Gainesville	54.6	58.9	55.8
#236	#43	University of Rochester	Rochester	51.9	27.1	32.4
#=247	#44	Dartmouth College	Hanover	50.6	30.7	54.3
#=247	#45	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst	50.6	48.1	40.0
#250	#46	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	50.4	32.3	41.8
#=272	#47	North Carolina State University	Raleigh	48.2	36.4	47.9
#275	#48	University of Virginia	Charlottesville	48.1	46.5	47.9
#=281	#49	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	47.3	45.4	26.4
#=285	#50	Georgetown University	Washington D.C.	47.0	38.2	60.6
#=287	#51	The University of Arizona	Tucson	46.8	49.3	40.4
#293	#52	University of California, Irvine	Irvine	46.1	46.6	37.1
#=294	#53	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland	46.0	22.4	20.5
#=294	#54	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame	46.0	38.0	43.6
#299	#55	University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder	45.6	49.0	36.8
#=306	#56	Indiana University Bloomington	Bloomington	44.9	44.7	50.3
#=314	#57	University of Miami	Miami	44.3	24.5	40.3
#=328	#58	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	New Brunswick	42.6	47.7	45.8
#=334	#59	Tufts University	Medford	42.3	23.8	21.2
#=334	#60	University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)	Chicago	42.3	48.8	40.3