Forbes America's Top Colleges 2025-2026

Recorded placements 34

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

1. #1Massachusetts Institute of Technology1st in the world
2. #2Columbia University2nd in the world
3. #3Princeton University3rd in the world
4. #4Stanford University4th in the world
5. #5University of California, Berkeley5th in the world
6. #6Harvard University6th in the world
7. #8Johns Hopkins University8th in the world
8. #9Yale University9th in the world
9. #10University of Pennsylvania10th in the world
10. #11Vanderbilt University11th in the world
11. #12Rice University12th in the world
12. #13University of Chicago13th in the world
13. #14Cornell University14th in the world
14. #15University of California, Los Angeles15th in the world
15. #16Northwestern University16th in the world
16. #18Brown University18th in the world
17. #20University of California, San Diego20th in the world
18. #21University of Michigan-Ann Arbor21st in the world
19. #22Duke University22nd in the world
20. #24California Institute of Technology24th in the world
21. #28University of Southern California28th in the world
22. #32Georgia Institute of Technology32nd in the world
23. #35University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill35th in the world
24. #37University of Maryland, College Park37th in the world
25. #38University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign38th in the world
26. #43Carnegie Mellon University43rd in the world
27. #45Boston University45th in the world
28. #46University of Texas at Austin46th in the world
29. #49New York University49th in the world
30. #50University of Washington50th in the world
31. #53University of Wisconsin-Madison53rd in the world
32. #62Purdue University62nd in the world
33. #78University of Minnesota78th in the world
34. #83Ohio State University83rd in the world