U.S. News and World Report Best National Universities

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