Ranking North America
The ranking of the 238 best universities in North America in 2026
Ranking based on the average of the three main international rankings: Shanghai (ARWU), QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education.
238ranked universities
RankUniversityCountry
- 1Harvard University
United States - 2Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
- 3Stanford UniversityUnited States
- 4California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
- 5University of ChicagoUnited States
- 6Princeton UniversityUnited States
- 7Yale UniversityUnited States
- 8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
- 9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
- 10Columbia UniversityUnited States
- 11Cornell UniversityUnited States
- 12University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
- 13Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
- 14University of MichiganUnited States
- 15University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
- 16Duke UniversityUnited States
- 17University of Toronto
Canada - 18University of California, San DiegoUnited States
- 19Rockefeller UniversityUnited States
- 20New York UniversityUnited States
- 21Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
- 22University of British ColumbiaCanada
- 23University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
- 24The University of Texas at AustinUnited States
- 25McGill UniversityCanada
- 26Northwestern UniversityUnited States
- 27University of WashingtonUnited States
- 28University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
- 29University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States
- 30Brown UniversityUnited States
- 31University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
- 32Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
- 33University of Minnesota Twin CitiesUnited States
- 34University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States
- 35University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States
- 36University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
- 37University of California, DavisUnited States
- 38Rice UniversityUnited States
- 39University of AlbertaCanada
- 40Michigan State UniversityUnited States
- 41University of FloridaUnited States
- 42Boston UniversityUnited States
- 43Emory UniversityUnited States
- 44University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
- 45Ohio State UniversityUnited States
- 46Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States
- 47Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States
- 48McMaster UniversityCanada
- 49Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and ScienceUnited States
- 50University of Colorado BoulderUnited States