Best Value University Rankings in North America 2026

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	University of Pennsylvania	1 %	United States	Private
6	Columbia University	1 %	United States	Private
7	Cornell University	1 %	United States	Private
8	Yale University	1 %	United States	Private
9	University of Michigan	1 %	United States	Public
10	University of California, Los Angeles	1 %	United States	Public
11	University of Washington	1 %	United States	Public
12	Princeton University	1 %	United States	Private
13	University of Toronto	1 %	Canada	Public
14	Johns Hopkins University	1 %	United States	Private
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1 %	United States	Public
16	University of Chicago	1 %	United States	Private
17	New York University	1 %	United States	Private
18	University of Texas at Austin	2 %	United States	Public
19	University of California, San Diego	2 %	United States	Public
20	University of British Columbia	2 %	Canada	Public
21	McGill University	2 %	Canada	Public
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	2 %	United States	Public
23	Northwestern University	2 %	United States	Public
24	Pennsylvania State University	2 %	United States	Public
25	Purdue University	2 %	United States	Public