When you’re ready to do some homework on colleges, you’re probably wondering what the best universities are in the United States today.  You’re going to find that there are a lot of schools to choose from both big and small.

To make things easier, I have compiled a top 100 list that you can take advantage of.  The way I gathered this list was from doing research on news publications such as US News, gathering student body numbers, test stats, as well.  We took a long time to compile this list.

Listed below are the top 100 universities in the United States

  1. Harvard
  2. Duke
  3. University of Oxford
  4. Notre Dame
  5. Rice University
  6. University of Michigan
  7. University of Minnesota
  8. Michigan State
  9. Washington
  10. Washington State University
  11. Indiana University
  12. Rutgers State
  13. Dartmouth
  14. University of Georgia
  15. University of Virginia
  16. MIT
  17. Yale
  18. University of Texas
  19. Princeton
  20. Johns Hopkins
  21. Oregon State
  22. Georgetown University
  23. Emory
  24. University of Pennsylvania
  25. University of Kentucky
  26. Amherst
  27. Pomona
  28. University of Tennessee
  29. University of New Mexico
  30. University of Chicago
  31. University of Illinois
  32. Northwestern
  33. University of Kansas
  34. Cornell
  35. Columbia University of New York
  36. Vanderbilt
  37. Davidson
  38. University of Nebraska
  39. College of William and Mary
  40. Wellesley
  41. United States Air Force Academy
  42. Middlebury
  43. Colgate
  44. Reed
  45. University of Missouri
  46. University of Pittsburgh
  47. Carnegie Mellon
  48. Villanova
  49. Boston College
  50. University of Iowa
  51. Wake Forest
  52. University of Rochester
  53. Wheaton
  54. Auburn University
  55. University of New Hampshire
  56. University of Delaware
  57. Colorado College
  58. Virginia Tech
  59. University of Colorado
  60. Vassar College
  61. University of Vermont
  62. Denison University
  63. New York University
  64. York University
  65. University of Miami
  66. Bringham Young
  67. Carleton University
  68. University of Wisconsin-Madion
  69. University of California
  70. University of Tulsa
  71. Utah State University
  72. University of North Carolina
  73. Southwestern University
  74. Drake
  75. Syracuse
  76. Clarkson University
  77. Connecticut College
  78. Arizona State University
  79. University of Arizona
  80. Butler University
  81. Ohio Northern
  82. Purdue
  83. Santa Clara
  84. Portland State University
  85. University of Florida
  86. Florida State University
  87. Clemson
  88. Fordham
  89. Chapman
  90. Xavier
  91. Hope College
  92. University of Arkansas
  93. Ohio State
  94. Webster
  95. Texas A&M
  96. University of Connecticut
  97. Drury
  98. Mercer
  99. Howard University
  100. Louisiana State University

This list is in no particular order but again, the way I came up with it was by looking at review based sites of colleges, as well as gathering data from other sources such as US News and others.

This list can change all the time, so just because it’s in a top 100 list, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be for you.  Always make sure that you do your due diligence before setting out to apply for a college.