Top 200 Universities in North America

2023 North American University Ranking New

Introduction

What are the most popular Universities in North America? uniRank tries to answer this question by publishing the 2023 North American University Ranking of the top 200 recognized higher-education institutions in North America meeting the following uniRank selection criteria:

  • being chartered, licensed and/or accredited by the appropriate higher education-related organization in each country
  • offering at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees)
  • delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, face-to-face, non-distance education format
Our aim is to provide a non-academic League Table of the top Universities in North America based on valid, unbiased and non-influenceable web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources rather than data submitted by the Universities themselves.

2023 Top 200 Universities in North America

Rank University Country
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States us
2 Harvard University United States us
3 Stanford University United States us
4 Cornell University United States us
5 University of California, Berkeley United States us
6 University of Michigan United States us
7 University of Washington United States us
8 Columbia University in the City of New York United States us
9 University of Pennsylvania United States us
10 Yale University United States us
11 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities United States us
12 The University of Texas at Austin United States us
13 University of California, Los Angeles United States us
14 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States us
15 University of Toronto Canada ca
16 University of Chicago United States us
17 Purdue University United States us
18 Princeton University United States us
19 Johns Hopkins University United States us
20 New York University United States us
21 University of Southern California United States us
22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States us
23 Michigan State University United States us
24 University of California, San Diego United States us
25 Arizona State University United States us
26 Carnegie Mellon University United States us
27 University of Florida United States us
28 University of California, Davis United States us
29 The University of British Columbia Canada ca
30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States us
31 Duke University United States us
32 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States us
33 Penn State University United States us
34 The University of Arizona United States us
35 University of Virginia United States us
36 University of Colorado Boulder United States us
37 University of Maryland United States us
38 Northwestern University United States us
39 Texas A&M University United States us
40 University of California, Irvine United States us
41 Boston University United States us
42 The Ohio State University United States us
43 North Carolina State University United States us
44 McGill University Canada ca
45 The University of Utah United States us
46 Indiana University Bloomington United States us
47 University of Pittsburgh United States us
48 Tufts University United States us
49 Georgetown University United States us
50 Georgia Institute of Technology United States us
51 University of California, Santa Barbara United States us
52 Washington University in St. Louis United States us
53 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States us
54 University of Nebraska-Lincoln United States us
55 University of Georgia United States us
56 California Institute of Technology United States us
57 University of Alberta Canada ca
58 University of Rochester United States us
59 Brown University United States us
60 Brigham Young University United States us
61 University of Waterloo Canada ca
62 Oregon State University United States us
63 Iowa State University United States us
64 University of Iowa United States us
65 Simon Fraser University Canada ca
66 University of Massachusetts Amherst United States us
67 University of South Florida United States us
68 Vanderbilt University United States us
69 Washington State University United States us
70 George Mason University United States us
71 George Washington University United States us
72 Colorado State University United States us
73 Syracuse University United States us
74 William Marsh Rice University United States us
75 Dartmouth College United States us
76 University at Buffalo, State University of New York United States us
77 University of California, San Francisco United States us
78 Florida State University United States us
79 University of Notre Dame United States us
80 University of Oregon United States us
81 University of California, Santa Cruz United States us
82 University of Illinois at Chicago United States us
83 University of Calgary Canada ca
84 University of Connecticut United States us
85 University of Houston United States us
86 Emory University United States us
87 University of California, Riverside United States us
88 University of Kentucky United States us
89 University of Delaware United States us
90 Georgia State University United States us
91 York University Canada ca
92 University of Missouri United States us
93 University of Kansas United States us
94 Université de Montréal Canada ca
95 Western University Canada ca
96 University of Central Florida United States us
97 Northeastern University United States us
98 Toronto Metropolitan University Canada ca
99 University of New Mexico United States us
100 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville United States us
101 McMaster University Canada ca
102 Queen's University Canada ca
103 Rochester Institute of Technology United States us
104 Fordham University United States us
105 University of Victoria Canada ca
106 University of South Carolina United States us
107 Boston College United States us
108 Louisiana State University United States us
109 Temple University United States us
110 University of Miami United States us
111 Université Laval Canada ca
112 Clemson University United States us
113 University of North Texas United States us
114 Drexel University United States us
115 San Diego State University United States us
116 University of Vermont United States us
117 University of New Hampshire United States us
118 The University of Oklahoma United States us
119 Florida International University United States us
120 Virginia Commonwealth University United States us
121 University of Cincinnati United States us
122 Case Western Reserve University United States us
123 The University of Alabama United States us
124 American University United States us
125 Utah State University United States us
126 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States us
127 The University of Tennessee at Martin United States us
128 Carleton University Canada ca
129 Baylor University United States us
130 Oklahoma State University United States us
131 University of Guelph Canada ca
132 University of Ottawa Canada ca
133 Auburn University United States us
134 West Virginia University United States us
135 Portland State University United States us
136 Tulane University United States us
137 University of Alabama at Birmingham United States us
138 University of Saskatchewan Canada ca
139 San José State University United States us
140 University of Arkansas United States us
141 Southern Methodist University United States us
142 Concordia University Canada ca
143 Stony Brook University United States us
144 Wayne State University United States us
145 Dalhousie University Canada ca
146 California State University, Northridge United States us
147 University of Maryland, Baltimore County United States us
148 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee United States us
149 University of Manitoba Canada ca
150 Brandeis University United States us
151 San Francisco State University United States us
152 University at Albany, State University of New York United States us
153 Kent State University United States us
154 Texas Tech University United States us
155 The University of Texas at Dallas United States us
156 Mississippi State University United States us
157 University of Denver United States us
158 Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis United States us
159 Northern Illinois University United States us
160 College of William & Mary United States us
161 DePaul University United States us
162 University of North Carolina at Charlotte United States us
163 Michigan Technological University United States us
164 Northern Arizona University United States us
165 Marquette University United States us
166 University of Nevada, Reno United States us
167 University of Rhode Island United States us
168 Florida Atlantic University United States us
169 New Mexico State University United States us
170 Santa Clara University United States us
171 Loyola University Chicago United States us
172 Montana State University United States us
173 University of Idaho United States us
174 Kansas State University United States us
175 Université du Québec à Montréal Canada ca
176 Binghamton University, State University of New York United States us
177 Liberty University United States us
178 University of Nevada, Las Vegas United States us
179 Quinnipiac University United States us
180 University of Wyoming United States us
181 Western Michigan University United States us
182 The New School United States us
183 Swarthmore College United States us
184 University of Missouri-Kansas City United States us
185 The University of Maine United States us
186 Southern New Hampshire University United States us
187 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo United States us
188 Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada ca
189 Middle Tennessee State University United States us
190 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center United States us
191 California State University, Long Beach United States us
192 United States Military Academy United States us
193 Illinois Institute of Technology United States us
194 Oregon Health & Science University United States us
195 California State University, Fullerton United States us
196 University of Mississippi United States us
197 Wake Forest University United States us
198 The University of Texas at Arlington United States us
199 Bowling Green State University United States us
200 Worcester Polytechnic Institute United States us

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