2024-2025년 U.S. News & World Report의 세계 최고 대학 순위에 따르면, 미국에 위치한 상위 50개 대학은 다음과 같습니다.
- Harvard University *
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Washington, Seattle
- Columbia University *
- Yale University *
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Pennsylvania *
- University of Chicago
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of California, San Diego
- Duke University
- Northwestern University
- New York University (NYU)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of Southern California
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Arizona
- University of Florida
- University of Utah
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Virginia
- University of Georgia
- University of Kansas
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- University of Connecticut
- University of Kentucky
- University of New Mexico
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Oregon
- University of Rhode Island
- University of South Carolina
- University of Vermont
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Delaware
* 아이비 리그(Ivy League)는 미국 북동부에 위치한 8개의 명문 사립 대학을 가리키는 용어입니다. 원래는 대학 스포츠 리그에서 유래했지만, 현재는 학문적 명성과 사회적 영향력을 가진 명문 대학들을 지칭하는 의미로 더 널리 사용됩니다.
아이비 리그에 속하는 대학은 다음과 같습니다:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Columbia University – New York City, New York
- Yale University – New Haven, Connecticut
- University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Brown University – Providence, Rhode Island
- Cornell University – Ithaca, New York
- Dartmouth College – Hanover, New Hampshire
- Princeton University – Princeton, New Jersey