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