Which us universities are better? According 2020 QS World University Rankings,United States have 157 universities on the list.
| Area Rank | University | Area | World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | us | 1 |
| 2 | Stanford University | us | 2 |
| 3 | Harvard University | us | 3 |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | us | 5 |
| 5 | University of Chicago | us | 10 |
| 6 | Princeton University | us | 13 |
| 7 | Cornell University | us | 14 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania | us | 15 |
| 9 | Yale University | us | 17 |
| 10 | Columbia University | us | 18 |
| 11 | University of Michigan | us | 21 |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins University | us | 24 |
| 13 | Duke University | us | 25 |
| 14 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | us | 28 |
| 15 | Northwestern University | us | 31 |
| 16 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | us | 35 |
| 17 | New York University (NYU) | us | 39 |
| 18 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | us | 45 |
| 19 | Carnegie Mellon University | us | 48 |
| 20 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | us | 56 |
| 21 | Brown University | us | 57 |
| 22 | University of Texas at Austin | us | 65 |
| 23 | University of Washington | us | 68 |
| 24 | Georgia Institute of Technology | us | 72 |
| 25 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | us | 75 |
| 26 | Rice University | us | 85 |
| 27 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | us | 90 |
| 28 | Pennsylvania State University | us | 93 |
| 29 | Boston University | us | 98 |
| 30 | The Ohio State University | us | 101 |
| 31 | University of California, Davis | us | 104 |
| 32 | Washington University in St. Louis | us | 108 |
| 33 | Purdue University | us | 111 |
| 34 | University of Southern California | us | 129 |
| 35 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | us | 135 |
| 36 | University of Maryland, College Park | us | 136 |
| 37 | University of Pittsburgh | us | 140 |
| 38 | Michigan State University | us | 144 |
| 39 | Emory University | us | 156 |
| 39 | University of Minnesota | us | 156 |
| 41 | University of Florida | us | 167 |
| 42 | University of Rochester | us | 171 |
| 43 | Case Western Reserve University | us | 179 |
| 44 | Texas A&M University | us | 189 |
| 45 | University of Virginia | us | 198 |
| 46 | Vanderbilt University | us | 200 |
| 47 | University of Colorado Boulder | us | 206 |
| 48 | Dartmouth College | us | 207 |
| 49 | University of Notre Dame | us | 210 |
| 50 | Arizona State University | us | 215 |
| 51 | University of California, Irvine | us | 219 |
| 52 | Georgetown University | us | 226 |
| 53 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | us | 231 |
| 54 | Tufts University | us | 253 |
| 55 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick | us | 262 |
| 55 | The University of Arizona | us | 262 |
| 57 | University of Miami | us | 271 |
| 58 | North Carolina State University | us | 285 |
| 59 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | us | 305 |
| 60 | Indiana University Bloomington | us | 312 |
| 61 | University of Hawai'i at Mañoa | us | 326 |
| 62 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | us | 327 |
| 63 | George Washington University | us | 336 |
| 64 | University at Buffalo SUNY | us | 340 |
| 65 | Northeastern University | us | 344 |
| 66 | University of Utah | us | 353 |
| 67 | Stony Brook University, State University of New York | us | 359 |
| 67 | The Katz School at Yeshiva University | us | 359 |
| 69 | University of California, Santa Cruz | us | 367 |
| 70 | University of Kansas | us | 372 |
| 71 | University of Connecticut | us | 377 |
| 72 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | us | 383 |
| 73 | University of Colorado, Denver | us | 392 |
| 74 | Wake Forest University | us | 398 |
| 75 | Washington State University | us | 400 |
| 76 | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | us | 407 |
| 77 | Tulane University | us | 419 |
| 78 | Illinois Institute of Technology | us | 421 |
| 78 | University of Iowa | us | 421 |
| 80 | Boston College | us | 432 |
| 81 | Colorado State University | us | 442 |
| 82 | Florida State University | us | 448 |
| 83 | University of California, Riverside | us | 454 |
| 84 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | us | 460 |
| 85 | Oregon State University | us | 461 |
| 86 | Brandeis University | us | 468 |
| 87 | The University of Georgia | us | 474 |
| 88 | Wayne State University | us | 484 |
| 89 | University of Delaware | us | 491 |
| 90 | University of Texas Dallas | us | 501-510 |
| 91 | Iowa State University | us | 511-520 |
| 92 | Clark University | us | 531-540 |
| 93 | Lehigh University | us | 551-560 |
| 93 | University of Missouri, Columbia | us | 551-560 |
| 95 | Drexel University | us | 561-570 |
| 95 | The New School | us | 561-570 |
| 95 | University of Cincinnati | us | 561-570 |
| 95 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | us | 561-570 |
| 95 | University of South Carolina | us | 561-570 |
| 100 | University of Massachusetts Boston | us | 571-580 |
| 100 | University of Oklahoma | us | 571-580 |
| 100 | University of Vermont | us | 571-580 |