2025 U.S. News Ranking

🏆 Top 30 National Universities

  1. Princeton University

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  3. Harvard University

  4. Stanford University

  5. Yale University

  6. Duke University

  7. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

  8. Johns Hopkins University

  9. Northwestern University

  10. University of Pennsylvania

  11. University of Chicago

  12. Cornell University

  13. Brown University

  14. Columbia University

  15. Dartmouth College

  16. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  17. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

  18. Rice University

  19. Vanderbilt University

  20. University of Notre Dame

  21. Carnegie Mellon University

  22. Washington University in St. Louis

  23. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  24. Georgetown University

  25. Emory University

  26. University of Virginia

  27. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  28. University of Southern California (USC)

  29. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

  30. University of Florida

  31. University of Texas at Austin

  32. New York University (NYU)

🏛️ Top 30 Public National Universities

  1. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

  2. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  4. University of Virginia

  5. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

  7. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

  8. University of Florida

  9. University of Texas at Austin

  10. University of Wisconsin-Madison

  11. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  12. University of Georgia

  13. University of Washington

  14. The Ohio State University

  15. Pennsylvania State University (University Park)

  16. University of Maryland, College Park

  17. Purdue University (West Lafayette)

  18. University of Pittsburgh

  19. Florida State University

  20. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  21. Rutgers University, New Brunswick

  22. University of Connecticut

  23. Texas A&M University

  24. Indiana University, Bloomington

  25. University of Massachusetts Amherst

  26. Michigan State University

  27. University of Delaware

  28. University of Colorado Boulder

  29. University of Iowa

  30. Virginia Tech

🎓 Top 30 National Liberal Arts Colleges

  1. Williams College

  2. Amherst College

  3. Swarthmore College

  4. United States Naval Academy

  5. Bowdoin College

  6. Pomona College

  7. Claremont McKenna College

  8. Wellesley College

  9. Carleton College

  10. Middlebury College

  11. Washington and Lee University

  12. Davidson College

  13. Haverford College

  14. Hamilton College

  15. Colgate University

  16. Vassar College

  17. Grinnell College

  18. United States Military Academy (West Point)

  19. Smith College

  20. Bates College

  21. Wesleyan University

  22. Barnard College

  23. Colorado College

  24. Harvey Mudd College

  25. Mount Holyoke College

  26. Kenyon College

  27. Macalester College

  28. Oberlin College

  29. Union College

  30. Scripps College