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El Ranking Times Higher Education de las mejores universidades de EE. UU. incluye una variedad de universidades, entre las que hay 181 de las mejores universidades y colegios del mundo. Dondequiera que quieras estudiar en Estados Unidos, la mejor universidad no está lejos: casi todos los estados y unas 130 ciudades están en la lista de las mejores universidades americanas.
Las instituciones de educación superior en la cima del ranking se centran en áreas de estudio populares; las cinco principales están ubicadas en California, Massachusetts y Nueva Jersey.
Las prestigiosas universidades estadounidenses ofrecen programas de grado, posgrado, doctorado, prácticas y posgrado de calidad. Las universidades privadas prestigiosas en Estados Unidos permiten obtener contactos útiles en el campo profesional elegido, pero el coste de estudiar es alto y la competencia por la admisión es muy alta.
Las universidades públicas son más baratas, pero esto no significa que la calidad de la educación vaya a ser siempre inferior, aunque no proporcionen un entorno selectivo.
Los estudiantes extranjeros ingresan en las principales universidades estadounidenses tras obtener un certificado de educación secundaria de 12 años, realizan estudios especiales como programas Advanced Placement, Pathway o International Foundation, y realizan el examen TOEFL, que confirma el conocimiento del inglés.
Times Higher Education's best universities in USA 2027
| US rank 2026 | World University Rank 2026 | World University Rank 2025 | University | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Princeton University | Princeton | New Jersey |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Harvard University | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | Stanford University | Stanford | California |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena | California |
| 6 | 9 | 8 | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | California |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | Yale University | New Haven | Connecticut |
| 8 | 14 | =14 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| 9 | 15 | =14 | The University of Chicago | Chicago | Illinois |
| 10 | 16 | 16 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | Maryland |
| 11 | 18 | 20 | Cornell University | Ithaca | New York |
| 12 | 18 | =18 | University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California |
| 13 | 20 | =18 | Columbia University | New York City | New York |
| 14 | 23 | =22 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | Michigan |
| 15 | 24 | 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | University of Washington | Seattle | Washington |
| 17 | 28 | 27 | Duke University | Durham | North Carolina |
| 18 | 30 | 31 | Northwestern University | Evanston | Illinois |
| 19 | 31 | 33 | New York University | New York City | New York |
| 20 | 41 | 40 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta | Georgia |
| 21 | 41 | 46 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Champaign | Illinois |
| 22 | 47 | 34 | University of California, San Diego | San Diego | California |
| 23 | 50 | =50 | University of Texas at Austin | Austin | Texas |
| 24 | 53 | =56 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison | Wisconsin |
| 25 | 64 | =62 | University of California, Davis | Davis | California |
| 26 | 65 | =58 | Brown University | Providence | Rhode Island |
| 27 | 67 | 69 | Washington University in St Louis | Saint Louis | Missouri |
| 28 | 72 | =67 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | California |
| 29 | 73 | 72 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles | California |
| 30 | 76 | 75 | Boston University | Boston | Massachusetts |
| 31 | 78 | 70 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill | North Carolina |
| 32 | 85 | 79 | Purdue University West Lafayette | West Lafayette | Indiana |
| 33 | 88 | =87 | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| 34 | 92 | =90 | Vanderbilt University | Nashville | Tennessee |
| 35 | 97 | =90 | University of California, Irvine | Irvine | California |
| 36 | 102 | =98 | Emory University | Atlanta | Georgia |
| 37 | 103 | =112 | Rice University | Houston | Texas |
| 38 | 105 | 122 | Michigan State University | East Lansing | Michigan |
| 39 | 108 | =116 | Ohio State University (Main campus) | Columbus | Ohio |
| 40 | 108 | =100 | Penn State (Main campus) | State College | Pennsylvania |
| 41 | 112 | n/a | University of Massachusetts | Amherst | Massachusetts |
| 42 | 116 | =112 | University of Maryland, College Park | College Park | Maryland |
| 43 | 127 | 127 | University of Rochester | Rochester | New York |
| 44 | 134 | =130 | University of Florida | Gainesville | Florida |
| 45 | 138 | =136 | University of Arizona | Tucson | Arizona |
| 46 | 145 | 159 | Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland | Ohio |
| 47 | 151 | n/a | Texas A&M University | College Station | Texas |
| 48 | 156 | =141 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania |
| 49 | 159 | =143 | University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder | Colorado |
| 50 | 166 | =163 | University of Virginia (Main campus) | Charlottesville | Virginia |
