20 10 ranking of American universities (before comprehensive research universities 1- 130) 1 Harvard University | Harvard University, Cambridge University, Massachusetts 1 Princeton University | Princeton University, New Jersey 3 Yale University | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 4 California Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4. California Stanford University 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia Pennsylvania University 8 Columbia University new york Columbia University 8 University of Chicago | Chicago University of Chicago, Illinois 10 Duke University | Duke University in Durham, North Carolina 1 1 Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire 12 Northwestern University | Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois 12 Washington University in St. Louis | Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri 14 Johns Hopkins University | Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland 65433 LeBron University 17 Emory University | Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia 17 Rice University | Rice University in Houston, Texas 17 Vanderbilt University | Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee 20 Notre Dame University | Notre Dame University, at Notre Dame University 2 1 UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley 22 Carnegie Mellon University | Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 23 Georgetown University | Washington, DC Georgetown University 24 VA University of Virginia 24 UCLA | UCLA 24 University of Southern California | UCLA 27 University of Michigan in Ann Arbor | University of Michigan in Ann Arbor 28 Tufts University | Medford, Mattufts University 28 Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem Vic Forest University in North Carolina 28 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3 1 Brandeis University | Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts 32 new york University | new york University in new york, New York 33 College of William and Mary | College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia 34 Boston College | Hill Boston College in chestnut, Massachusetts 35 Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia 35 Leahy University | Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 35 University of California, San Diego | La Jolla, University of California, San Diego 35 University of Rochester | University of Rochester, new york 39 University of Wisconsin, Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison WI 39 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL 4 1 case western reserve university | Cleveland case western reserve university Ohio 42 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 42 University of California at Davis | University of California at Davis | University of Washington | Seattle, University of Washington 42 University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Santa Barbara 46 University of California, Irvine | University of California, Irvine 47 Penn State University-University Park | Penn State University 47 University of Texas at Austin | University of Texas at Austin 47 University of Florida | University of Florida at Gainesville 50 tulane university | New Orleans, La tulane university 50 Miami University | Coral Gables, FL Miami University 52 Theological Seminary University | new york Theological Seminary University | DC George Washington University 53 Ohio State University-Columbus | Ohio State University 53 Maryland University-College Park | Maryland College Park 56 Boston University | Boston University, Massachusetts 56 Pittsburgh University | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 58 Syracuse University | Syracuse University 58 Pepperdine University | Malibu, Pepperdine University 58 Georgia University | Athens, Georgia University 6 1 Clemson University | clemson, SC Clemson University 6 1 Fordham University | New York, Fordham University, new york 6 1 Purdue. M University-College Station | College Station, Texas A & amp； M University 6 1 University of Minnesota Twin Cities | University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota 66 Rutgers University New Jersey State University New Brunswick | Taverrogs University New Brunswick Campus in Pisca, New Jersey 66 University of Connecticut | Stowe University in Connecticut 68 Southern Methodist University in Connecticut | Nanwei University of Technology in Dallas, Texas 68 University of Delaware | University of Delaware, Newark 68 Worcester Institute of Technology | Worcester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts 7 1 UT Brigham Young University 7 1 Indiana University-Bloomington | Indiana University Bloomington 7 1 Michigan State University | Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan 7 1 University of California, Santa Cruz | University of California, Santa Cruz 7 1 University of Iowa | University of Iowa, Iowa 7 1 Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 77 colorado school of mines | Golden University of Mining, Colorado 77 University of Miami-Oxford University of Miami, Ohio 77 University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado at Boulder 80 Baylor University | Waco, Baylor University in Texas 80 Northeastern University | Boston, Northeastern University in Massachusetts 80 Suny Binghamton Binghamton | Binghamton, State University of New York Binghamton University 80 Suny Institute of Environmental Science and Forestry | Syracuse, New York, School of Environmental Science and Forestry Science, State University of New York 84 American University | Washington, DC American University 84 Marquette University | Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 84 Stevens Institute of Technology | Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 84 Denver University | Denver University, Denver, Colorado 88 Auburn University | Auburn University, Alben University 88 Clark University | Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts 88 drexel University | Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 88 Iowa State University | Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa 88 North Carolina State University-Raleigh | Raleigh, North Carolina State University 88 St. Louis University | St. Louis University in Missouri 88 Tulsa University | Tulsa University in Oklahoma 88 university of vermont | Burlington, university of vermont.