Best University Rankings in North America 2025

Rank	University	Percentage Ranking (Continent)	Country	Type
1	Harvard University	1 %	United States	Private
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1 %	United States	Private
3	Stanford University	1 %	United States	Private
4	University of California, Berkeley	1 %	United States	Public
5	Columbia University	1 %	United States	Private
6	University of Pennsylvania	1 %	United States	Private
7	Yale University	1 %	United States	Private
8	Cornell University	1 %	United States	Private
9	Princeton University	1 %	United States	Private
10	University of Toronto	1 %	Canada	Public
11	University of California, Los Angeles	1 %	United States	Public
12	Johns Hopkins University	1 %	United States	Private
13	University of Michigan	1 %	United States	Public
14	University of Chicago	1 %	United States	Private
15	New York University	1 %	United States	Private
16	University of Washington	1 %	United States	Public
17	California Institute of Technology	1 %	United States	Private
18	University of British Columbia	1 %	Canada	Public
19	Northwestern University	2 %	United States	Public
20	McGill University	2 %	Canada	Public
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2 %	United States	Public
22	University of California, San Diego	2 %	United States	Public
23	Duke University	2 %	United States	Private
24	University of Texas at Austin	2 %	United States	Public
25	University of Maryland	2 %	United States	Public

Published: January 13, 2025