US University Rankings
U.S. News ranked Princeton University in the No. 1 spot in its annual rankings of the nation’s best colleges and universities, followed by Harvard University. The University of Chicago and Yale University are tied for No. 3. MIT shares the No. 5 spot with Columbia University and Stanford University.
Key Points
Emory University was ranked 21st among the nation’s top universities in the Best Colleges guidebook from U.S. News & World Report. In addition, the University was cited for its economic diversity, with 23 percent of its undergraduates receiving need-based Pell Grants, and among schools with the largest percentage of international undergraduates at 16 percent.
Pepperdine University continues to climb the U.S. News rankings as one of America’s “Best National Universities.” It was ranked 46th out of 310 national institutions of higher learning, advancing four spots higher than its ranking of number 50.
The University of Cincinnati was ranked No. 133 among America’s Best National Universities, according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of top tier national universities. That’s up two places from last year’s 135th ranking. Among top public universities, UC was ranked No. 63.
American universities and colleges are recognized internationally as leaders in the global university rankings, they always dominate the World’s top 100 rankings. Following are some of the leading US institutions that are ranked amongst World’s top 5 in the world university league tables:
Harvard University
- Ranked No. 1 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
- No. 1 in the THES World Top 200 institutions.
- No. 1 in Wuhan University Ranking.
- No. 3 in Web metrics Ranking of World Universities.
- No. 1 in Newsweek ranking of top 100 global universities.
Yale University
- No. 2 in THES Rankings.
- No. 3 in Newsweek ranking.
California Institute of Technology
- No. 4 in Newsweek.
- No. 5 in THES.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- No. 1 in Web metrics.
- No. 5 in ARWU.
Stanford University
- No. 2 in Newsweek.
- No. 4 in Wuhan University Ranking.
- No. 2 in ARWU.
- No. 2 in Web metrics.
University of California Berkeley
- No. 4 in the ranking web of world universities.
- No. 3 in SJTU’s ARWU League Table.
- No. 5 in Newsweek.
