Which United States universities are better? According 2018 Times World University Rankings,United States have 157 universities on the list.
| Area Rank |
University | Area | World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 3 |
| 1 | Stanford University | United States | 3 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 5 |
| 4 | Harvard University | United States | 6 |
| 5 | Princeton University | United States | 7 |
| 6 | University of Chicago | United States | 9 |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 10 |
| 8 | Yale University | United States | 12 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 13 |
| 10 | Columbia University | United States | 14 |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 15 |
| 12 | Duke University | United States | 17 |
| 13 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 18 |
| 14 | Cornell University | United States | 19 |
| 15 | Northwestern University | United States | 20 |
| 16 | University of Michigan | United States | 21 |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 24 |
| 18 | University of Washington | United States | 25 |
| 19 | New York University | United States | 27 |
| 20 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 31 |
| 21 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 33 |
| 22 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 37 |
| 23 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 43 |
| 24 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 49 |
| 25 | Brown University | United States | 50 |
| 25 | Washington University in St Louis | United States | 50 |
| 27 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | 53 |
| 28 | University of California, Davis | United States | 54 |
| 29 | University of Minnesota | United States | 56 |
| 29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 56 |
| 31 | Purdue University | United States | 60 |
| 32 | University of Southern California | United States | 66 |
| 33 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 69 |
| 34 | Boston University | United States | 70 |
| 34 | Ohio State University | United States | 70 |
| 36 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 77 |
| 37 | Michigan State University | United States | 83 |
| 38 | Rice University | United States | 86 |
| 39 | Dartmouth College | United States | 89 |
| 40 | Emory University | United States | 98 |
| 41 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 99 |
| 42 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States | 100 |
| 42 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 100 |
| 44 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 105 |
| 45 | University of Virginia | United States | 113 |
| 46 | Indiana University | United States | 117 |
| 47 | Georgetown University | United States | 123 |
| 48 | Arizona State University | United States | 126 |
| 49 | University of Florida | United States | 143 |
| 50 | University of Notre Dame | United States | 150 |