Top 100 Universities In The USA 2024

The United States is home to some of the world’s most prestigious universities, known for their academic excellence, research contributions, and vibrant campus life. This comprehensive guide provides an overview of the top 100 universities in the USA for 2024, including key details such as their description, address, founding year, best majors, and notable alumni.

100 Universities in the USA 2024

Rank	University	School Type	Address	Year of Establishment	Best Majors	Representative Alumni
1	Harvard University	Private	Cambridge, MA	1636	Business, Law, Medicine, Computer Science	Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Natalie Portman
2	Stanford University	Private	Stanford, CA	1885	Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Law	Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Reese Witherspoon
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Private	Cambridge, MA	1861	Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Economics	Kofi Annan, Richard Feynman, Buzz Aldrin
4	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)	Public	Berkeley, CA	1868	Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Environmental Science	Steve Wozniak, Eric Schmidt, Joan Didion
5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	Private	Pasadena, CA	1891	Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry	Linus Pauling, Gordon Moore, Kip Thorne
6	Princeton University	Private	Princeton, NJ	1746	Public Policy, Economics, Computer Science, History	Michelle Obama, Jeff Bezos, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7	University of Chicago	Private	Chicago, IL	1890	Economics, Law, Business, Social Sciences	Carl Sagan, Susan Sontag, Milton Friedman
8	Columbia University	Private	New York, NY	1754	Business, Law, Journalism, International Affairs	Warren Buffett, Barack Obama, Langston Hughes
9	University of Pennsylvania	Private	Philadelphia, PA	1740	Business, Law, Medicine, Education	Donald Trump, Elon Musk, John Legend
10	Yale University	Private	New Haven, CT	1701	Law, Business, History, Political Science	George H.W. Bush, Meryl Streep, Hillary Clinton
11	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Public	Los Angeles, CA	1919	Film, Engineering, Business, Medicine	Francis Ford Coppola, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Franco
12	Johns Hopkins University	Private	Baltimore, MD	1876	Medicine, Public Health, International Studies, Biology	Michael Bloomberg, Woodrow Wilson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
13	Duke University	Private	Durham, NC	1838	Business, Law, Medicine, Public Policy	Richard Nixon, Melinda Gates, Tim Cook
14	Northwestern University	Private	Evanston, IL	1851	Journalism, Business, Law, Engineering	Meghan Markle, Stephen Colbert, Charlton Heston
15	University of Michigan	Public	Ann Arbor, MI	1817	Business, Engineering, Medicine, Law	Gerald Ford, Larry Page, Madonna
16	New York University (NYU)	Private	New York, NY	1831	Film, Business, Law, Journalism	Martin Scorsese, Lady Gaga, Anne Hathaway
17	University of Southern California (USC)	Private	Los Angeles, CA	1880	Film, Business, Engineering, Law	George Lucas, Shonda Rhimes, Neil Armstrong
18	Cornell University	Private	Ithaca, NY	1865	Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Hotel Management	Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bill Nye, Toni Morrison
19	Rice University	Private	Houston, TX	1912	Engineering, Business, Architecture, Computer Science	Howard Hughes, Alberto Gonzales, Annise Parker
20	Brown University	Private	Providence, RI	1764	Public Policy, Economics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering	John F. Kennedy Jr., Emma Watson, Ted Turner
21	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	Public	La Jolla, CA	1960	Biology, Engineering, Computer Science, Oceanography	Mike Judge, Angela Davis, Nick Woodman
22	Vanderbilt University	Private	Nashville, TN	1873	Medicine, Business, Engineering, Education	Al Gore, Amy Grant, Muhammad Yunus
23	University of Virginia (UVA)	Public	Charlottesville, VA	1819	Business, Law, Medicine, International Relations	Tina Fey, Katie Couric, Robert F. Kennedy
24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)	Public	Chapel Hill, NC	1789	Business, Law, Medicine, Public Health	Michael Jordan, John Edwards, Andy Griffith
25	Wake Forest University	Private	Winston-Salem, NC	1834	Business, Law, Medicine, Liberal Arts	Arnold Palmer, Tim Duncan, Chris Paul
26	Emory University	Private	Atlanta, GA	1836	Medicine, Law, Business, Public Health	Newt Gingrich, Jimmy Carter, Brian Baumgartner
27	University of Florida	Public	Gainesville, FL	1853	Engineering, Business, Medicine, Law	Tim Tebow, Erin Andrews, Bob Vila
28	University of Texas at Austin	Public	Austin, TX	1883	Engineering, Business, Law, Computer Science	Matthew McConaughey, Michael Dell, Janis Joplin
29	Boston College	Private	Chestnut Hill, MA	1863	Business, Law, Education, Nursing	John Kerry, Amy Poehler, Leonard Nimoy
30	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)	Public	University Park, PA	1855	Engineering, Business, Agriculture, Information Sciences and Technology	Keegan-Michael Key, Mark Parker, Ty Burrell
31	University of Miami	Private	Coral Gables, FL	1925	Business, Medicine, Marine Science, Law	Dwayne Johnson, Gloria Estefan, Marco Rubio
32	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	Public	Santa Barbara, CA	1909	Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Psychology	Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Douglas, Carol Greider
33	University of California, Irvine (UCI)	Public	Irvine, CA	1965	Health Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Business	Greg Louganis, Michael Chabon, Roy Fielding
34	University of Rochester	Private	Rochester, NY	1850	Engineering, Business, Music, Optics	Shirley Jackson, Donna Strickland, Robert Forster
35	University of California, Davis (UC Davis)	Public	Davis, CA	1905	Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Science, Engineering	Ken O’Brien, Ann Veneman, Dan Lungren
36	University of Minnesota	Public	Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN	1851	Engineering, Business, Medicine, Law	Bob Dylan, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale
37	Michigan State University	Public	East Lansing, MI	1855	Business, Education, Engineering, Agriculture	Magic Johnson, James Caan, Earvin Johnson III
38	University of Notre Dame	Private	Notre Dame, IN	1842	Business, Law, Engineering, Political Science	Condoleezza Rice, Joe Montana, Regis Philbin
39	University of Pittsburgh	Public	Pittsburgh, PA	1787	Medicine, Engineering, Business, Law	Fred Rogers, Andrew Mellon, Gene Kelly
40	University of Arizona	Public	Tucson, AZ	1885	Astronomy, Optical Sciences, Business, Engineering	Linda Ronstadt, Greg Kinnear, Kourtney Kardashian
41	Purdue University	Public	West Lafayette, IN	1869	Engineering, Technology, Business, Agriculture	Neil Armstrong, Drew Brees, Orville Redenbacher
42	University of Maryland, College Park	Public	College Park, MD	1856	Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Journalism	Sergey Brin, Jim Henson, Larry David
43	University of Colorado Boulder	Public	Boulder, CO	1876	Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, Aerospace	Robert Redford, Matt Stone, Glenn Miller
44	University of Connecticut	Public	Storrs, CT	1881	Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Bobby Moynihan, Meg Ryan, Scott Burrell
45	Texas A&M University	Public	College Station, TX	1876	Engineering, Business, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine	Robert Gates, Rick Perry, Lyle Lovett
46	Indiana University Bloomington	Public	Bloomington, IN	1820	Business, Law, Music, Education	Mark Cuban, John Mellencamp, Suzanne Collins
47	University of Georgia	Public	Athens, GA	1785	Business, Law, Agriculture, Journalism	Alton Brown, Herschel Walker, Ryan Seacrest
48	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Public	Amherst, MA	1863	Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Education	Richard Gere, Natalie Cole, Bill Cosby
49	University of Utah	Public	Salt Lake City, UT	1850	Engineering, Business, Medicine, Law	Stephen Covey, J. Willard Marriott, Jon Huntsman Sr.
50	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Public	Champaign and Urbana, IL	1867	Engineering, Business, Agriculture, Computer Science	Roger Ebert, Larry Ellison, Steve Chen
51	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)	Public	Santa Cruz, CA	1965	Computer Science, Marine Biology, Astronomy, Environmental Studies	Huey P. Newton, bell hooks, Maya Rudolph
52	University of Colorado Denver	Public	Denver, CO	1912	Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Architecture	Pamela Norris, Ed Perlmutter, Lindsey Horan
53	University of Denver	Private	Denver, CO	1864	Business, Law, International Studies, Engineering	Condoleezza Rice, Peter Coors, John Kerry
54	University of Iowa	Public	Iowa City, IA	1847	Business, Law, Medicine, Writing	Gene Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Ashton Kutcher
55	University of Kansas	Public	Lawrence, KS	1865	Business, Law, Engineering, Medicine	Paul Rudd, Wilt Chamberlain, Don Johnson
56	University of Kentucky	Public	Lexington, KY	1865	Business, Law, Engineering, Medicine	Ashley Judd, Mitch McConnell, Adolph Rupp
57	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Public	Knoxville, TN	1794	Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Peyton Manning, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Baker
58	University of Missouri	Public	Columbia, MO	1839	Journalism, Business, Engineering, Law	Brad Pitt, Sheryl Crow, Jon Hamm
59	University of South Carolina	Public	Columbia, SC	1801	International Business, Law, Medicine, Engineering	Darius Rucker, Lindsey Graham, Ainsley Earhardt
60	University of Oklahoma	Public	Norman, OK	1890	Business, Law, Engineering, Meteorology	James Garner, Blake Shelton, Ed Harris
61	Clemson University	Public	Clemson, SC	1889	Engineering, Business, Agriculture, Education	Nikki Haley, Strom Thurmond, John Edwards
62	University of Alabama	Public	Tuscaloosa, AL	1831	Business, Law, Engineering, Communication	Harper Lee, Joe Namath, Bear Bryant
63	Louisiana State University (LSU)	Public	Baton Rouge, LA	1860	Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Law	Shaquille O’Neal, Hubert Humphrey, James Carville
64	University of Oregon	Public	Eugene, OR	1876	Journalism, Business, Law, Environmental Studies	Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman, Kaitlin Olson
65	Washington State University	Public	Pullman, WA	1890	Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine	Edward R. Murrow, Paul Allen, Drew Bledsoe
66	University of Nevada, Reno	Public	Reno, NV	1874	Earthquake Engineering, Journalism, Agriculture, Business	Colin Kaepernick, Adam Garcia, Donald W. Reynolds
67	University of Mississippi	Public	Oxford, MS	1848	Business, Law, Pharmacy, Education	William Faulkner, Archie Manning, John Grisham
68	Auburn University	Public	Auburn, AL	1856	Engineering, Business, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine	Tim Cook, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson
69	University of New Mexico	Public	Albuquerque, NM	1889	Engineering, Business, Law, Medicine	Edward Abbey, Brian Urlacher, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
70	Florida State University	Public	Tallahassee, FL	1851	Business, Law, Criminology, Music	Burt Reynolds, Jim Morrison, Sara Blakely
71	University of Arkansas	Public	Fayetteville, AR	1871	Business, Engineering, Law, Agriculture	J. William Fulbright, Jerry Jones, John Boozman
72	University of Vermont	Public	Burlington, VT	1791	Business, Environmental Studies, Medicine, Education	Jody Williams, Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
73	University of Louisville	Public	Louisville, KY	1798	Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Johnny Unitas, Muhammad Ali, Mitch McConnell
74	West Virginia University	Public	Morgantown, WV	1867	Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Jerry West, Don Knotts, Katherine Johnson
75	University of Idaho	Public	Moscow, ID	1889	Engineering, Agriculture, Law, Business	Sarah Palin, John Clayton, Frank Shrontz
76	University of Wyoming	Public	Laramie, WY	1886	Business, Engineering, Law, Agriculture	Dick Cheney, Larry Wilcox, Tom Satterly
77	Montana State University	Public	Bozeman, MT	1893	Engineering, Agriculture, Business, Architecture	Craig Kilborn, Jack Horner, Steve Daines
78	University of Rhode Island	Public	Kingston, RI	1892	Oceanography, Engineering, Business, Pharmacy	Lamar Odom, Christiane Amanpour, Robert Ballard
79	University of Maine	Public	Orono, ME	1865	Engineering, Forestry, Marine Science, Business	Stephen King, Peter Vigue, Olympia Snowe
80	University of Delaware	Public	Newark, DE	1743	Engineering, Business, Chemical Engineering, Education	Joe Biden, Joe Flacco, Chris Christie
81	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Public	Honolulu, HI	1907	Marine Biology, Astronomy, Business, Hawaiian Studies	Daniel Inouye, Tammy Duckworth, Bette Midler
82	University of Montana	Public	Missoula, MT	1893	Forestry, Journalism, Business, Environmental Studies	Carroll O’Connor, J.K. Simmons, Jim Messina
83	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Public	Fairbanks, AK	1917	Arctic Biology, Engineering, Business, Fisheries	Sarah Palin, Valerie Davidson, William R. Wood
84	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)	Public	Las Vegas, NV	1957	Hospitality Management, Business, Law, Engineering	Jimmy Kimmel, Guy Fieri, Jerry Tarkanian
85	University of North Dakota	Public	Grand Forks, ND	1883	Aviation, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Chuck Klosterman, Phil Jackson, Karen Nyberg
86	University of South Dakota	Public	Vermillion, SD	1862	Business, Law, Medicine, Education	Tom Brokaw, Al Neuharth, John Thune
87	University of Alaska Anchorage	Public	Anchorage, AK	1954	Business, Engineering, Nursing, Aviation	Scott Gomez, Hollis French, Bill Walker
88	South Dakota State University	Public	Brookings, SD	1881	Agriculture, Engineering, Pharmacy, Nursing	Tom Daschle, Adam Vinatieri, Michael J. Fitzpatrick
89	North Dakota State University	Public	Fargo, ND	1890	Agriculture, Engineering, Business, Pharmacy	Tyrone Braxton, Bob Backlund, Clint Hill
90	University of Vermont	Public	Burlington, VT	1791	Business, Environmental Studies, Medicine, Education	Jody Williams, Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
91	University of Southern Mississippi	Public	Hattiesburg, MS	1910	Marine Science, Business, Education, Psychology	Jimmy Buffett, Brett Favre, Cat Cora
92	University of Puerto Rico	Public	San Juan, PR	1903	Business, Law, Engineering, Medicine	Roberto Clemente, Ricky Martin, Jaime Benitez
93	University of Alaska Southeast	Public	Juneau, AK	1972	Marine Biology, Business, Education, Environmental Science	Jay Hammond, Mike Dunleavy, Lisa Murkowski
94	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Public	Lafayette, LA	1898	Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Education	Ali Landry, Daniel Sunjata, Jake Delhomme
95	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Public	Milwaukee, WI	1956	Business, Engineering, Architecture, Nursing	Willem Dafoe, Satya Nadella, Alan Kulwicki
96	Utah State University	Public	Logan, UT	1888	Agriculture, Engineering, Business, Education	Merlin Olsen, Mary L. Cleave, Edgar Bergen
97	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)	Public	Birmingham, AL	1969	Medicine, Health Sciences, Engineering, Business	Eric Essix, Deidre Downs, Rodney A. Brooks
98	University of Central Florida (UCF)	Public	Orlando, FL	1963	Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Hospitality	Cheryl Hines, Daniel Tosh, Blake Bortles
99	University of Louisville	Public	Louisville, KY	1798	Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine	Johnny Unitas, Muhammad Ali, Mitch McConnell
100	Washington State University	Public	Pullman, WA	1890	Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine	Edward R. Murrow, Paul Allen, Drew Bledsoe

The detailed information provided for each university highlights their unique strengths, top majors, and the notable alumni who have made significant contributions to various fields. This comprehensive list serves as a valuable resource for prospective students and educators alike, offering insights into the diverse educational opportunities available across the United States.

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