Top Universities in USA

Here is our comprehensive guide listing down the top universities in the USA.

Rated consistently in the top 10 study destinations across the world for International students and growing every year, the USA has a lot to offer. One of the primary reasons why it’s a popular destination is the number of top universities present in the country. We have compiled the list of top-ranked colleges and universities in USA for you along with the details.

For the QS world ranking of top USA universities, please click here.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Founded: 1861

City: Cambridge

Ranking: 1^st in the World, 1^st in USA

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: USD 50,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: USD 60,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95 % in 12th

Postgraduate:  85% Graduation

Some Facts:

• As of October 2019, 95 Nobel laureates, 26 Turing Award winners, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT as alumni, faculty members, or researchers
• In September 2017, the school announced the creation of an artificial intelligence research lab called the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. IBM will spend $240 million over the next decade, and the lab will be staffed by MIT and IBM scientists
• MIT Nano, also known as Building 12, is an interdisciplinary facility for nanoscale research. Its 100,000 square feet cleanroom and research space, visible through expansive glass facades, is the largest research facility of its kind in the nation
• Other notable campus facilities include a pressurized wind tunnel for testing aerodynamic research, a towing tank for testing ship and ocean structure designs, and Alcator C-Mod, the largest fusion device operated by any university
• MIT has five schools (Science, Engineering, Architecture and Planning, Management, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) and one college
• MIT’s proximity to Harvard University (“the other school up the river”) has led to a substantial number of research collaborations such as the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Broad Institute
• MIT enrolled 4,602 undergraduates and 6,972 graduate students in 2018–2019

Stanford University

Founded: 1891

City: Stanford

Ranking: 2^nd in the World, 2^nd in USA

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: USD 50,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: USD 60,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95 % in 12th

Postgraduate:  85% Graduation

Some Facts:

• As of October 2019, 83 Nobel laureates, 27 Turing Award laureates, and 8 Fields medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty or staff
• Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 10th largest economy in the world
• In 2012–13, the university awarded $126 million in need-based financial aid to 3,485 students, with an average aid package of $40,460
• Together with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, Stanford is part of the Biohub, a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan

13 Stanford alumni have won the Nobel Prize. As of 2019, 122 Stanford students or alumni have been named Rhodes Scholars

Harvard University

Founded: 1636

City: Cambridge

Ranking: 3^rd in the World, 3^rd in USA

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: USD 50,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: USD 60,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95 % in 12th

Postgraduate:  85% Graduation

Some Facts:

• Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university
• Harvard’s alumni include eight U.S. presidents, more than thirty foreign heads of state, 188 living billionaires, 364 Rhodes Scholars, and 252 Marshall Scholars. As of October 2019, 160 Nobel laureates, 18 Fields Medalists, and 14 Turing Award winners have been affiliated as students, faculty, or researchers
• As of 2012, Harvard University had a total financial aid reserve of $159 million for students, and a Pell Grant reserve of $4.093 million available for disbursement.
• Harvard offered grants totaling $414 million; $340 million came from institutional funds, $35 million from federal support, and $39 million from other outside support

California Institute of Technology

Founded: 1891

City: California

Ranking: 5^th in the World, 4^th in USA

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: USD 50,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: USD 60,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95 % in 12th

Postgraduate:  85% Graduation

Some Facts:

• The university is one among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences
• As of October 2019, Caltech alumni, faculty and researchers include 74 Nobel Laureates (chemist Linus Pauling being the only individual in history to win two unshared prizes), 4 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners
• According to a 2015 Pomona College study, Caltech ranked number one in the U.S. for the percentage of its graduates who go on to earn a PhD
• The middle 50% range of SAT scores for enrolled freshmen for the class of 2022 were 740–780 for evidence-based reading and writing and 790–800 for math, and 1520–1570 total
• Caltech graduates earn a median early career salary of $83,400 and $143,100 mid-career, placing them in the top 5 among graduates of US colleges and universities.
• The average net return on investment over a period of 20 years is $887,000, the tenth highest among US colleges

University of Chicago

Founded: 1890

City: Chicago

Ranking: 10^th in the World, 5^th in USA

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: USD 50,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: USD 60,600 -75,000 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95 % in 12th

Postgraduate:  85% Graduation

Some Facts:

• University of Chicago scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including economics, law, literary criticism, mathematics, religion, sociology, and the behaviourism school of political science, establishing the Chicago schools in various fields
• As of October 2019, 100 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as professors, students, faculty, or staff, making it a university with one of the highest concentrations of Nobel laureates in the world
• The University of Chicago has an extensive record of producing successful business leaders and billionaires. ARWU has consistently placed the University of Chicago among the top 10 universities in the world
• In fiscal year 2015, the University of Chicago spent $421.1 million on research
• The University of Chicago (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics) has owned the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin since 1897, where the largest operating refracting telescope in the world and other telescopes are located.

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