Nineteen United States institutions nabbed top positions in the top 100 global universities, according to 2025-2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings.
Of those, Harvard University earned first place and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took second.
Stanford University was third, followed by the University of California, Berkeley in sixth, the University of Washington, Seattle in eighth, Yale University in ninth and Columbia University in 10th.
Outside of the top 10, were the University of California Los Angeles (13), Johns Hopkins University (14) and the University of Pennyslvania (15).
Cornell University, Princeton University, the University of California San Francisco all took 16th place.
Beyond those were: the University of California San Diego (21), the University of Michigan (21), California Institute of Technology (23), Northwestern University (24), the University of Chicago (26) and Duke University (27).
The ranking includes 2,250 top institutions, spread across 105 countries.
The rankings are evaluated by Clarivate™, which creates a group of 2,346 universities that are used to rank the top 2,250 schools.
Then the institutions were ranked based on 13 indicators, which included global and regional research reputation, publications, books, conferences and international collaboration.
The publication said the list provides “insight into how U.S. universities — which U.S. News has been ranking separately for nearly 40 years — stand globally,” according to its website.
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