QS World University Rankings USA

The Best US Universities for Excellence, Equity, and Employability.

LONDON, May 20, 2020 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the publishers of the QS World University Rankings, today released their inaugural ranking of America’s top universities.

The QS World University Rankings USA assesses how well universities are responding to the social, intellectual, and economic challenges. QS said it had ranked the Universities according to their research performance and career outcomes as well as a range of indicators evaluating each institution’s social impact and attempts to foster equitability.

The methodology also evaluates universities based on the efforts they are making to support the 17 UN Sustainable Development goals.

QS CEO Nunzio Quacquarelli said, “QS surveyed 33,000+ prospective university students since the start of the pandemic. Though COVID-19’s effects on higher education will resonate for years to come, our research reveals that it does not deter students from pursuing their education goals. We hope that this ranking will provide students with an insightful comparative tool, as they prepare for the next steps in their educational journey.”

The QS World University Rankings USA see Harvard University named America’s top university, placed ahead of Stanford University (2nd) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3rd).

Harvard’s leadership got perfect scores for QS’s Research and Employability indicators, which suggests that, on average, Harvard produces America’s most impactful research and most employable graduates, QS said.

Five American colleges achieve perfect scores for QS’s Learning Experience indicator: Yale University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, and Brown University.

QS Research Director Ben Sowter said, “For thirty years, QS has served the global student community with the independent insights they need to make informed decisions. Our Employer Reputation indicator, a dataset based on the sentiments of over 44,000 hiring managers worldwide, allows potential applicants to assess US universities based on their ability to enhance their future careers.”

Sowter continued, “As the global graduate jobs market becomes even more competitive, our research suggests that students are placing a greater emphasis on this information. With the pandemic further disrupting the graduate employment market, we predict that concern about education and employability will intensify.”

QS has named 300 institutions as the best four-year universities in the United States.

• QS World University Rankings USA

Harvard University
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
Columbia University
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
Cornell University
New York University (NYU)
University of Chicago
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Southern California
Northwestern University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Brown University
Boston University
Rice University
Georgetown University
University of Washington
The University of Texas at Austin
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Emory University
University of California, Davis
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Rochester
Vanderbilt University
Georgia Institute of Technology
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Washington University
Tufts University
University of Florida
Dartmouth College
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Miami
University of Notre Dame
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
University of California, Irvine
Case Western Reserve University
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
University at Buffalo SUNY
Pennsylvania State University
Boston College
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Virginia
Syracuse University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Purdue University
Northeastern University
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Michigan State University
Brandeis University
The Ohio State University
Drexel University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Temple University
North Carolina State University
University of Colorado Boulder
Lehigh University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa
Tulane University
Howard University
The University of Arizona
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Binghamton University SUNY
Illinois Institute of Technology
University of Pittsburgh
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
University of the Pacific
Texas A&M University
University of Denver
University of Massachusetts Boston
William & Mary
Florida State University
San Diego State University
University of Connecticut
Virginia Commonwealth University
Indiana University Bloomington
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
University of Houston
University of San Francisco
The University of Georgia
University of Oklahoma
Arizona State University
Wake Forest University
Southern Methodist University
Andrews University
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Oregon
University of Texas Dallas
Santa Clara University
The University of Louisville - School of Public Health & Information Sciences
George Mason University