Draft:List of top fifty universities in the North America

Rankings of universities in the North America are typically published annually by a variety of nationally, and internationally based publications. Rankings of post-secondary institutions have most often been conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments, or academia. Ranking are established to help inform potential applicants about universities in the North America based on a range of criteria, including student body characteristics, classes, faculty, finances, library, and reputation. Various rankings consider combinations of factors, including funding and endowment, research excellence and/or influence, specialization expertise, admissions, student options, award numbers, internationalization, graduate employment, industrial linkage, historical reputation and other criteria. Various rankings also evaluate universities based on research output.

Universities in the North America placed in rankings which includes other universities; including the Academic Ranking of World Universities, QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. The top 50 university in the North America based on the average of their ranking in these four important ranking system are listed.

International rankings

The following table includes universities in the North America, and their most recent global rank (Top 50):

Rank in North America	University	2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities	2022 QS World University Ranking	2022 Times Higher Education World University Ranking	2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking	Average Ranking
49	University of Alberta	101	126	125	135	122
20	University of British Columbia	42	46	37	35	40
2	Stanford University	2	2	2	3	2
1	Harvard University	1	5	2	1	2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4	1	5	2	3
4	California Institute of Technology	8	5	2	9	6
5	Columbia University	7	19	11	6	11
6	Yale University	11	14	8	12	11
7	University of Chicago	10	10	10	15	11
21	McGill University	67	27	44	51	47
41	McMaster University	92	140	80	133	111
8	University of California, Berkeley	6	32	7	4	12
9	Princeton University	6	20	9	16	13
45	Université de Montréal	101	111	88	151	113
10	University of Pennsylvania	15	13	13	13	14
11	Johns Hopkins University	15	25	12	9	15
12	Cornell University	12	18	19	22	18
13	University of California, Los Angeles	13	40	15	13	20
15	University of Michigan	22	21	22	17	21
16	Northwestern University	30	30	24	24	27
17	University of California, San Diego	18	48	33	21	30
18	University of Washington	16	72	29	7	31
19	New York University	27	42	26	30	31
14	University of Toronto	22	26	18	16	21
20	Duke University	32	52	20	22	32
24	University of Texas at Austin	41	67	44	43	49
23	University of Wisconsin–Madison	31	65	58	41	49
25	Washington University in St. Louis	23	107	50	31	53
26	University of North Carolina	30	100	54	36	55
27	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	55	75	48	60	60
28	Carnegie Mellon University	95	51	28	102	69
29	Georgia Institute of Technology	101	80	38	62	70
30	University of Southern California	61	112	63	70	77
31	Boston university	90	110	54	57	78
32	University of California, Santa Barbara	49	146	66	56	79
33	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	40	156	85	47	82
34	Brown University	101	60	61	119	85
35	University of California, Davis	100	108	67	67	86
36	Ohio State University	101	120	80	45	87
37	University of Maryland, College Park	53	152	91	51	87
38	Pennsylvania State University	101	96	114	80	98
39	University of Pittsburgh	96	140	133	43	103
40	Emory University	101	156	85	71	103
41	Purdue University	79	116	94	127	104
43	Rice University	101	94	124	128	112
44	University of Colorado Boulder	40	230	131	50	113
46	University of California, Irvine	69	210	98	78	114
47	Michigan State University	101	157	93	108	115
48	Vanderbilt University	62	218	116	73	117
50	University of Florida	88	173	152	99	128

List of states and provinces by top universities

The following table includes states and provinces with the most top ranking universities:

State/Province	number of top universities
California	9
Pennsylvania	4
Massachusetts	3
New York	3
Illinois	3
Maryland	2
Michigan	2
Ontario	2
Quebec	2
Texas	2
North Carolina	2
Georgia	2
Connecticut	1
New Jersey	1
Washington	1
British Columbia	1
Wisconsin	1
Missouri	1
Minnesota	1
Rhode Island	1
Ohio	1
Indiana	1
Colorado	1
Tennessee	1
Alberta	1
Florida	1

See also

• List of universities in Canada
• U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities

References

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Works cited

Category:Universities and colleges in Canada Category:University and college rankings