The Times Higher Education World University Rankings powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

World rankings - North America

Rank Institution Location Overall score change criteria
1 Harvard University United States
96.1
2 California Institute of Technology United States
96.0
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
95.6
4 Stanford University United States
94.3
5 Princeton University United States
94.2
8 University of California, Berkeley United States
91.1
10 Yale University United States
89.5
11 University of California, Los Angeles United States
87.7
12 University of Chicago United States
86.9
13 Johns Hopkins University United States
86.4
14 Cornell University United States
83.9
15 University of Michigan United States
83.4
17 University of Toronto Canada
82.0
18 Columbia University United States
81.0
19 University of Pennsylvania United States
79.5
20 Carnegie Mellon University United States
79.3
23 University of Washington United States
78.0
24 Duke University United States
76.5
25 Northwestern University United States
75.9
27 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
75.3
29 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
75.0
30 University of British Columbia Canada
73.8
30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
73.8
32 University of California, San Diego United States
73.2
33 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States
73.0
35 McGill University Canada
71.7
38 Washington University in St Louis United States
69.9
43 University of Wisconsin United States
67.0
47 Rice University United States
66.9
49 University of California, Irvine United States
66.0
51 Vanderbilt University United States
65.9
52 University of Minnesota United States
65.6
53 Tufts University United States
65.2
54 University of California, Davis United States
65.0
55 Brown University United States
64.9
56 University of Massachusetts United States
64.7
59 Boston University United States
64.0
60 New York University United States
63.9
61 Emory University United States
63.0
63 University of Notre Dame United States
62.8
64 University of Pittsburgh United States
62.7
65 Case Western Reserve University United States
62.2
66 Ohio State University United States
62.1
67 University of Colorado Boulder United States
61.6
68 Yeshiva University United States
61.4
68 University of California, Santa Cruz United States
61.4
72 University of Virginia United States
61.1
73 University of Southern California United States
60.7
75 William & Mary United States
60.4
78 Stony Brook University United States
59.6
83 University of Utah United States
59.0
90 Wake Forest University United States
57.7
93 McMaster University Canada
57.6
95 University of Arizona United States
57.3
95 George Washington University United States
57.3
98 University of Maryland, College Park United States
57.2
99 Dartmouth College United States
57.1
104 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States
56.4
105 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States
56.3
106 Purdue University United States
56.2
109 Pennsylvania State University United States
56.0
115 University of Hawaii at Manoa United States
55.2
117 University of California, Riverside United States
55.1
122 Michigan State University United States
54.5
127 University of Alberta Canada
54.3
130 University of Victoria Canada
53.4
132 University of Iowa United States
53.3
138 University of Montreal Canada
52.4
156 Indiana University United States
51.0
156 Iowa State University United States
51.0
158 Georgia Health Sciences University United States
50.7
159 University of Delaware United States
50.4
161 Boston College United States
50.3
161 Arizona State University United States
50.3
164 Georgetown University United States
50.1
190 University of Cincinnati United States
46.9
190 Drexel University United States
46.9
193 Dalhousie University Canada
46.8
196 Kent State University United States
46.5
197 University of Illinois at Chicago United States
46.4
199 Simon Fraser University Canada
46.2

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