2015 Best Universities in North America
Our rankings of the 2015 Best Universities in North America are based exclusively on factors actual college freshmen said were most important to their college decision. According to the most recent nationwide survey published by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA , these factors include academic reputation, financial aid offerings, overall cost, and success of graduates in the post-college job market. Each of these factors were weighted equally in our ranking and data was derived from a variety of publicly available sources, including U.S. News & World Report , the National Center for Education Statistics , Teaching, Research, Citation Flow, Industry Income, International Outlook, Referring Domains, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, and Trust Flow.
1 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
3 Harvard University, United States
4 Stanford University, United States
5 Princeton University, United States
6 University of Chicago, United States
7 University of California, Berkeley, United States
8 Yale University, United States
9 Penn State University, United States
10 Columbia University, United States
11 The University of Texas at Austin, United States
12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
13 Johns Hopkins University, United States
14 University of Pennsylvania, United States
15 University of Michigan, United States
16 University of Toronto, Canada
17 Cornell University, United States
18 Carnegie Mellon University, United States
19 University of British Columbia, Canada
20 Duke University, United States
21 New York University, United States
22 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States
23 University of Washington, United States
24 Northwestern University, United States
25 University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
26 McGill University, Canada
27 University of Texas at Austin, United States
28 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States
29 University of California, San Diego, United States
30 University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
31 University of Maryland, United States
32 University of California, Davis, United States
33 Washington University in St Louis, United States
34 University of Minnesota, United States
35 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
36 Brown University, United States
37 Boston University, United States
38 University of Southern California, United States
39 Ohio State University, United States
40 University of Pittsburgh, United States
41 University of Massachusetts, United States
42 McMaster University, Canada
43 Vanderbilt University, United States
44 Rice University, United States
45 Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
46 Emory University, United States
47 North Carolina State University, United States
48 University of Colorado Boulder, United States
49 Tufts University, United States
50 University of Rochester, United States
53 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
54 University of California, Irvine, United States
55 University of Notre Dame, United States
56 Dartmouth College, United States
57 Case Western Reserve University, United States
58 Iowa State University of Science and Technology, United States
59 Michigan State University, United States
60 University of Arizona, United States
61 Purdue University, United States
62 University of Alberta, Canada
63 University of Montreal, Canada
64 University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
65 University of Utah, United States
66 Oregon State University, United States
67 Stony Brook University, United States
68 Indiana University, United States
69 Florida State University, United States
70 University of Florida, United States
71 Arizona State University, United States
72 George Washington University, United States
73 University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States
74 University of Virginia, United States
75 Brigham Young University, United States
76 Georgetown University, United States
77 University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
78 University of Iowa, United States
79 University of California, Riverside, United States
80 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
81 William & Mary, United States
82 Brandeis University, United States
83 Yeshiva University, United States
84 Medical University of South Carolina, United States
85 The University of Tennessee, United States
86 Wake Forest University, United States
87 Texas A&M University, United States
88 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
89 University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
90 Syracuse University, United States
91 University of Miami, United States
92 Queen's University, Canada
93 University of Victoria, Canada
94 University of Delaware, United States
95 Iowa State University, United States
96 University of Ottawa, Canada
97 University of California, San Francisco, United States
98 Boston College, United States
99 Georgia Health Sciences University, United States
100 University of Cincinnati, United States
101 Colorado School of Mines, United States
102 University of Georgia, United States
103 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, United States
104 Northeastern University, United States
105 University of South Carolina, United States
106 Tulane University, United States
107 University of Waterloo, Canada
108 Western University, Canada
109 University of Calgary, Canada
110 Carleton University, Canada
111 University of North Texas, United States
112 Colorado State University, United States
113 Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
114 Creighton University, United States
115 San Diego State University, United States
116 Dalhousie University, Canada
117 Utah State University, United States
118 Drexel University, United States
119 Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
120 University of Missouri, United States
121 Simon Fraser University, Canada
122 State University of New York, Albany - University at Albany, United States
123 University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States
124 The University of Texas at Dallas, United States
125 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States
126 Wayne State University, United States
127 University of Guelph, Canada
128 University of Kansas, United States
129 University of Kentucky, United States
130 The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
131 York University, Canada
132 Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States
133 George Mason University, United States
134 University of Houston, United States
135 Kent State University, United States