Center for World University Rankings – World's Top Universities

Year Pitt Rank Overall Pitt Rank Nationally Pitt Rank Publics Pitt Rank AAU Pitt Rank AAU Publics
2012 71 48 24 43 21
2013 69 44 24 40 21
2014 53 34 17 31 16
2015 46 29 13 26 12
2016 47 31 15 29 14
2017 43 27 12 25 11
2018 73 43 24 41 22
2019 63 39 20 36 18
2020 72 40 20 37 18
2021 72 40 20 37 18
2022 75 42 22 39 20
2023 75 42 22 39 20

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AAU Universities

Public 

  • Arizona State University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Indiana University
  • Michigan State University
  • The Ohio State University 
  • The Pennsylvania State University 
  • Purdue University 
  • Rutgers University – New Brunswick 
  • Stony Brook University – The State University of New York 
  • Texas A&M University
  • University at Buffalo – The State University of New York 
  • The University of Arizona 
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Berkeley 
  • University of California, Irvine 
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of California, San Diego 
  • University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • University of California, Santa Cruz 
  • University of Colorado, Boulder 
  • University of Florida 
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • The University of Iowa 
  • The University of Kansas 
  • University of Maryland at College Park 
  • University of Michigan 
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
  • University of Missouri, Columbia 
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  • University of Oregon 
  • University of Pittsburgh 
  • University of South Florida 
  • The University of Texas at Austin 
  • The University of Utah 
  • University of Virginia 
  • University of Washington 
  • The University of Wisconsin – Madison 

Private

  • Boston University
  • Brandeis University 
  • Brown University 
  • California Institute of Technology 
  • Carnegie Mellon University 
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Columbia University 
  • Cornell University 
  • Dartmouth College 
  • Duke University 
  • Emory University 
  • Harvard University 
  • The George Washington University 
  • The Johns Hopkins University 
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • New York University 
  • Northwestern University
  • Princeton University 
  • Rice University 
  • Stanford University 
  • Tufts University 
  • Tulane University 
  • The University of Chicago 
  • University of Miami 
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Pennsylvania 
  • University of Rochester 
  • University of Southern California
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Yale University

Canadian

  • McGill University 
  • University of Toronto