Forbes America's Top Colleges 2025-2026

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Rank	Institution	Claim
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1st in the world
2	Columbia University	2nd in the world
3	Princeton University	3rd in the world
4	Stanford University	4th in the world
5	University of California, Berkeley	5th in the world
6	Harvard University	6th in the world
8	Johns Hopkins University	8th in the world
9	Yale University	9th in the world
10	University of Pennsylvania	10th in the world
11	Vanderbilt University	11th in the world
12	Rice University	12th in the world
13	University of Chicago	13th in the world
14	Cornell University	14th in the world
15	University of California, Los Angeles	15th in the world
16	Northwestern University	16th in the world
18	Brown University	18th in the world
20	University of California, San Diego	20th in the world
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	21st in the world
22	Duke University	22nd in the world
24	California Institute of Technology	24th in the world
28	University of Southern California	28th in the world
32	Georgia Institute of Technology	32nd in the world
35	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	35th in the world
37	University of Maryland, College Park	37th in the world
38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	38th in the world
43	Carnegie Mellon University	43rd in the world
45	Boston University	45th in the world
46	University of Texas at Austin	46th in the world
49	New York University	49th in the world
50	University of Washington	50th in the world
53	University of Wisconsin-Madison	53rd in the world
62	Purdue University	62nd in the world
78	University of Minnesota	78th in the world
83	Ohio State University	83rd in the world