The List of American Top University

1.	Princeton University (NJ)
2.	Harvard University (MA)
3.	Yale University(CT)
4.	Stanford University(CA)
5.	University of Pennsylvania
5.	California Institute of Technology
7.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8.	Duke University(NC)
9.	Columbia University(NY)
9.	University of Chicago
11.	Dartmouth College(NH)
12.	Washington University in St. Louis
12.	Cornell University(NY)
14.	Brown University(RI)
14.	Northwestern University(IL)
14.	Johns Hopkins University(MD)
17.	Rice University(TX)
17.	Emory University(GA)
19.	Vanderbilt University(TN)
19.	University of Notre Dame(IN)
21.	University of California—Berkeley *
22.	Carnegie Mellon University(PA)
23.	University of Virginia *
23.	Georgetown University(DC)
25.	University of California—Los Angeles *
25.	University of Michigan—Ann Arbor *
27.	University of Southern California
28.	University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill *
28.	Tufts University(MA)
30.	Wake Forest University(NC)
31.	Lehigh University(PA)
31.	Brandeis University(MA)
33.	College of William and Mary(VA) *
34.	New York University