Just like every home in Nigeria would want their children to study in any of the universities in the US, the one which the World University Rankings will consider the best. The US remains the world’s driving target for international students, although you still need to have a high score in GRE, GMAT or TOEFL.
In 2013-14, around 764,500 international students decided to study in the US, as reported by the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors record. The most popular states for international students from Nigeria in the US were California, New York, and Texas, and the popular programs were business administration, nursing, mathematics and computer engineering.
Obviously, it’s not solely the high demand of the US universities that attract international students, but it is the reputation given to the list of universities in the USA. Whether you’re pulled into the brilliant lights and quick pace of the large city or the miles of the untainted wilderness; sun-kissed beaches or rich forest; the urban and surprisingly great country has something for everyone.
Universities in the US
The sheer volume and mixed specialty of universities in the US indicate that you can easily be sure of finding a suitable foundation in your preferred environment. And, if you don’t get it right the first time you arrive in the USA as an international student, moving between universities in the US is not difficult. Below, you will find the list of the top 100 universities in the USA.
The list includes the location of the universities in USA, names of universities, ranking of the USA universities, as well as the best ones among them. Simply browse through the names, starting from the current top universities in the USA, down to the top 100 universities.
1.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 Cornell University
6 University of Washington
7 University of Michigan
8 University of California, Los Angeles
9 Columbia University in the City of New York
10 The University of Texas at Austin
11 University of Wisconsin-Madison
13 University of Pennsylvania
14 University of Minnesota
15 Penn State University
16 Purdue University
18 New York University
19 Carnegie Mellon University
20 University of California, San Diego
21 University of California, Davis
22 University of Florida
23 Michigan State University
24 University of Southern California
25 University of Chicago
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
27 University of Maryland
28 Duke University
29 University of Virginia
30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
31 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
32 Texas A&M University
33 University of Arizona
34 University of California, Irvine
35 University of Toronto
36 Northwestern University
37 Arizona State University
38 North Carolina State University
39 University of Colorado Boulder
40 Johns Hopkins University
41 The University of British Columbia
42 Indiana University
43 Georgia Institute of Technology
44 Boston University
45 The Ohio State University
46 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
47 University of Pittsburgh
48 University of Utah
49 California Institute of Technology
50 University of California, Santa Barbara
51 Colorado State University
52 Washington University in St. Louis
53 University of Iowa
54 Iowa State University of Science and Technology
55 Washington State University
56 Georgetown University
57 University of Georgia
58 Oregon State University
59 University of South Florida
60 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
61 Brown University
62 Vanderbilt University
63 Tufts University
64 University of Oregon
65 Dartmouth College
66 University of Alberta
67 University of Delaware
68 Florida State University
69 Brigham Young University
70 University of Notre Dame
71 Rice University
72 University at Buffalo, State University of New York
73 University of California, Riverside
74 University of Massachusetts Amherst
75 Simon Fraser University
76 University of Waterloo
77 George Mason University
78 George Washington University
79 University of California, Santa Cruz
80 Emory University
81 University of Houston
82 University of California, San Francisco
83 University of Rochester
84 Syracuse University
85 The University of Tennessee
86 University of Missouri
87 McGill University
88 University of Kentucky
89 Georgia State University
90 University of Illinois at Chicago
91 University of Calgary
92 University of Connecticut
93 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
94 Utah State University
95 University of Kansas
96 University of New Mexico
97 University of South Carolina
98 Rochester Institute of Technology
99 University of North Texas
100 San Diego State University
The above top 100 university ranking table uses 13 different performance indicators to study the university’s qualities; including research, knowledge transfer, and worldwide perspective, especially with global rankings in the education setting.
Keep in mind that this list may be different from what you see out there, but it is advisable to chip in what you know so that we can update our list. Do not forget to share or contribute by leaving your comment below.
