Академический рейтинг университетов мира — также известный, как Шанхайский рейтинг университетов мира (ARWU) опубликовал рейтинг университетов США.
| Место в рейтинге | Университет | 
|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 
| 2 | Stanford University | 
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley | 
| 6 | Princeton University | 
| 8 | Columbia University | 
| 9 | California Institute of Technology | 
| 10 | University of Chicago | 
| 12 | Cornell University | 
| 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | 
| 14 | Johns Hopkins University | 
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | 
| 17 | University of Washington | 
| 19 | University of California, San Francisco | 
| 21 | University of California, San Diego | 
| 25 | New York University | 
| 27 | Washington University in St. Louis | 
| 28 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 
| 29 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 
| 30 | Northwestern University | 
| 31 | Duke University | 
| 33 | University of Wisconsin — Madison | 
| 37 | The University of Texas at Austin | 
| 44 | Rockefeller University | 
| 44 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 
| 49 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
| 50 | University of Maryland, College Park |