Which United States universities are better? According 2017 USNEWS World University Rankings,United States have 210 universities on the list.
| Area Rank |
University | Area | World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 1 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 2 |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States | 3 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 4 |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 5 |
| 6 | Princeton University | United States | 8 |
| 7 | Columbia University | United States | 9 |
| 8 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 10 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 11 |
| 9 | University of Washington | United States | 11 |
| 11 | University of Chicago | United States | 13 |
| 12 | Yale University | United States | 14 |
| 13 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 15 |
| 14 | University of California San Francisco | United States | 16 |
| 15 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | United States | 17 |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 18 |
| 17 | Duke University | United States | 19 |
| 18 | Cornell University | United States | 22 |
| 19 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | 24 |
| 20 | Northwestern University | United States | 25 |
| 21 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 26 |
| 22 | New York University | United States | 27 |
| 22 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States | 27 |
| 24 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | United States | 29 |
| 25 | University of Texas, Austin | United States | 30 |
| 26 | Boston University | United States | 32 |
| 27 | University of Colorado, Boulder | United States | 33 |
| 28 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 34 |
| 29 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | 38 |
| 30 | Rockefeller University | United States | 39 |
| 31 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 41 |
| 32 | University of California, Davis | United States | 42 |
| 33 | Ohio State University, Columbus | United States | 43 |
| 34 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | United States | 47 |
| 35 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 48 |
| 36 | University of Southern California | United States | 53 |
| 37 | Pennsylvania State University, University Park | United States | 56 |
| 38 | Rice University | United States | 61 |
| 39 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 63 |
| 40 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 65 |
| 41 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 66 |
| 42 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 67 |
| 43 | Emory University | United States | 70 |
| 44 | University of Arizona | United States | 73 |
| 45 | Michigan State University | United States | 78 |
| 46 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | United States | 82 |
| 46 | University of Florida | United States | 82 |
| 48 | Brown University | United States | 85 |
| 49 | Purdue University, West Lafayette | United States | 90 |
| 50 | University of Rochester | United States | 95 |