Best Value University Rankings in North America 2025 Rank University Percentage Ranking (Continent) Country Type 1Harvard University1 %United StatesPrivate2Massachusetts Institute of Technology1 %United StatesPrivate3Stanford University1 %United StatesPrivate4University of California, Berkeley1 %United StatesPublic5University of Pennsylvania1 %United StatesPrivate6Columbia University1 %United StatesPrivate7University of Toronto1 %CanadaPublic8Yale University1 %United StatesPrivate9Cornell University1 %United StatesPrivate10Princeton University1 %United StatesPrivate11University of California, Los Angeles1 %United StatesPublic12University of Michigan1 %United StatesPublic13Johns Hopkins University1 %United StatesPrivate14University of Washington1 %United StatesPublic15University of Chicago1 %United StatesPrivate16New York University1 %United StatesPrivate17University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1 %United StatesPublic18McGill University1 %CanadaPublic19California Institute of Technology2 %United StatesPrivate20Northwestern University2 %United StatesPublic21University of British Columbia2 %CanadaPublic22University of Texas at Austin2 %United StatesPublic23University of Maryland2 %United StatesPublic24University of California, San Diego2 %United StatesPublic25University of California, San Francisco2 %United StatesPublic