Which United States universities are better? According 2018 QS World University Rankings,United States have 157 universities on the list.
| Area Rank |
University | Area | World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 1 |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States | 2 |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States | 3 |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 4 |
| 5 | University of Chicago | United States | 9 |
| 6 | Princeton University | United States | 13 |
| 7 | Cornell University | United States | 14 |
| 8 | Yale University | United States | 16 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 17 |
| 10 | Columbia University | United States | 18 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 19 |
| 12 | Duke University | United States | 21 |
| 12 | University of Michigan | United States | 21 |
| 14 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 27 |
| 15 | Northwestern University | United States | 28 |
| 16 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 33 |
| 17 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 38 |
| 18 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 47 |
| 19 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 52 |
| 20 | Brown University | United States | 53 |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 55 |
| 22 | University of Washington | United States | 61 |
| 23 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 67 |
| 24 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 69 |
| 25 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 70 |
| 26 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 80 |
| 27 | Boston University | United States | 81 |
| 28 | The Ohio State University | United States | 86 |
| 29 | Rice University | United States | 89 |
| 30 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 93 |
| 31 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 100 |
| 32 | Purdue University | United States | 105 |
| 33 | University of California, Davis | United States | 118 |
| 34 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 129 |
| 35 | University of Southern California | United States | 132 |
| 36 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States | 134 |
| 37 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 142 |
| 38 | Emory University | United States | 147 |
| 39 | Michigan State University | United States | 149 |
| 40 | University of Minnesota | United States | 163 |
| 41 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 164 |
| 42 | Dartmouth College | United States | 169 |
| 43 | University of Virginia | United States | 173 |
| 44 | University of Florida | United States | 178 |
| 45 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States | 182 |
| 46 | University of Rochester | United States | 186 |
| 47 | Texas A&M University | United States | 195 |
| 48 | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) | United States | 207 |
| 49 | Arizona State University | United States | 209 |
| 50 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 212 |