Top 200 Universities In North America 2025 Edition

These are the 200 best Universities in North America based on the UniRank world University ranking for 2025.

Selection Criteria

These Universities are ranked based on the following criteria.

• Accredited, licensed, and/or authorized by the relevant higher education organization in each country
• Offering at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor’s degree) and/or graduate degrees (master’s or doctorate)
• Providing courses mainly in the traditional face-to-face, non-distance education format

This University ranking aims to provide a non-academic league table of the top 200 universities in North America based on unbiased and valid web metrics.

Top Universities In North America

Below is the numerical ranking of the best 200 Universities in North America in their ascending order.

Rank	University	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	us
2	Stanford University	us
3	Harvard University	us
4	University of California, Berkeley	us
5	University of Michigan	us
6	Cornell University	us
7	University of Washington	us
8	Penn State University	us
9	University of Wisconsin-Madison	us
10	University of California, Los Angeles	us
11	Purdue University	us
12	University of Minnesota	us
13	Columbia University in the City of New York	us
14	The University of Texas at Austin	us
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	us
16	New York University	us
17	University of Pennsylvania	us
18	University of Southern California	us
19	Carnegie Mellon University	us
20	Princeton University	us
21	University of Toronto	ca
22	University of California, Irvine	us
23	Yale University	us
24	University of California, San Diego	us
25	University of Maryland	us
26	Michigan State University	us
27	University of Chicago	us
28	Arizona State University	us
29	The University of British Columbia	ca
30	University of Florida	us
31	University of California, Davis	us
32	University of Colorado Boulder	us
33	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	us
34	Johns Hopkins University	us
35	Duke University	us
36	Boston University	us
37	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	us
38	The University of Arizona	us
39	University of Virginia	us
40	Texas A&M University	us
41	Georgia Institute of Technology	us
42	Northwestern University	us
43	North Carolina State University	us
44	The Ohio State University	us
45	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	us
46	University of California, Santa Barbara	us
47	The University of Utah	us
48	University of Pittsburgh	us
49	McGill University	ca
50	University of Waterloo	ca
51	Indiana University Bloomington	us
52	Tufts University	us
53	Washington University in St. Louis	us
54	California Institute of Technology	us
55	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	us
56	Oregon State University	us
57	University of Massachusetts Amherst	us
58	Vanderbilt University	us
59	Georgia State University	us
60	University of Iowa	us
61	University of Alberta	ca
62	Simon Fraser University	ca
63	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	us
64	University of California, Santa Cruz	us
65	University of Delaware	us
66	University of Georgia	us
67	Florida State University	us
68	Georgetown University	us
69	Colorado State University	us
70	Brigham Young University	us
71	University of Houston	us
72	University of Notre Dame	us
73	Brown University	us
74	University of Oregon	us
75	George Mason University	us
76	George Washington University	us
77	University of South Florida	us
78	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	us
79	Washington State University	us
80	Rice University	us
81	Emory University	us
82	University of Rochester	us
83	University of Kansas	us
84	University of Central Florida	us
85	Dartmouth College	us
86	University of Calgary	ca
87	University of Connecticut	us
88	The University of Western Ontario	ca
89	University of California, San Francisco	us
90	University of Illinois at Chicago	us
91	Temple University	us
92	Queen’s University	ca
93	University of California, Riverside	us
94	Rochester Institute of Technology	us
95	York University	ca
96	University of Kentucky	us
97	University of Missouri	us
98	University of Victoria	ca
99	University of South Carolina	us
100	San Diego State University	us
101	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	us
102	University of Cincinnati	us
103	McMaster University	ca
104	Virginia Commonwealth University	us
105	University of New Mexico	us
106	The University of Oklahoma	us
107	The University of Texas at Dallas	us
108	University of Miami	us
109	University of North Texas	us
110	Boston College	us
111	Louisiana State University	us
112	University of Guelph	ca
113	Ryerson University	ca
114	University of Vermont	us
115	Drexel University	us
116	California State University, Northridge	us
117	San José State University	us
118	Florida International University	us
119	Carleton University	ca
120	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	us
121	University of Ottawa	ca
122	Fordham University	us
123	Portland State University	us
124	Case Western Reserve University	us
125	Clemson University	us
126	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	us
127	California State University, Fullerton	us
128	Stony Brook University	us
129	San Francisco State University	us
130	The University of Alabama	us
131	Kent State University	us
132	University of New Hampshire	us
133	Concordia University	ca
134	The University of Tennessee at Martin	us
135	Syracuse University	us
136	Université de Montréal	ca
137	Northeastern University	us
138	American University	us
139	Wayne State University	us
140	West Virginia University	us
141	Auburn University	us
142	Texas Tech University	us
143	Oklahoma State University	us
144	Loyola University Chicago	us
145	Dalhousie University	ca
146	Tulane University	us
147	University of Saskatchewan	ca
148	Baylor University	us
149	Utah State University	us
150	University at Albany, State University of New York	us
151	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	us
152	The University of Texas at Arlington	us
153	Université Laval	ca
154	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	us
155	Michigan Technological University	us
156	DePaul University	us
157	University of Arkansas	us
158	Montana State University	us
159	Ohio University	us
160	Kansas State University	us
161	Lamar University	us
162	University of Rhode Island	us
163	Northern Arizona University	us
164	Western Michigan University	us
165	University of Alabama at Birmingham	us
166	Brandeis University	us
167	University of Idaho	us
168	University of Denver	us
169	Binghamton University, State University of New York	us
170	Santa Clara University	us
171	Liberty University	us
172	Southern Methodist University	us
173	Memorial University of Newfoundland	ca
174	Northern Illinois University	us
175	The New School	us
176	California State University, Sacramento	us
177	James Madison University	us
178	California State University, Long Beach	us
179	University of Nevada, Reno	us
180	Mississippi State University	us
181	Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis	us
182	University of Manitoba	ca
183	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	us
184	College of William & Mary	us
185	Illinois Institute of Technology	us
186	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	us
187	Florida Atlantic University	us
188	Swarthmore College	us
189	Lehigh University	us
190	University of Missouri-Kansas City	us
191	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	us
192	Old Dominion University	us
193	Saint Louis University	us
194	Université du Québec à Montréal	ca
195	University of Maryland University College	us
196	Oregon Health & Science University	us
197	New Mexico State University	us
198	University of Colorado Denver	us
199	Western Washington University	us
200	Southern New Hampshire University

Conclusion

Here you have it. The top Universities in North America.

If you think we missed any University, please let us know in the comment session, and after thorough verification, we will add it to our list.