American Universities Dominate Top World Universities

American universities are considered the best educational institutions in the world due to their tremendous research and resource potential and activities, in addition to so many other factors. Here is a list of top 50 universities in the world. Source: Webometrics

			POSITION
WORLD RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	SIZE	VISIBILITY	RICH FILES	SCHOLAR
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		1	2	1	8
2	Harvard University		2	3	19	1
3	Stanford University		11	1	6	12
4	University of California Berkeley		3	4	2	25
5	Pennsylvania State University		4	8	7	6
6	University of Michigan		15	6	20	21
7	Cornell University		12	5	8	44
8	University of Minnesota		7	17	4	22
9	University of Wisconsin Madison		8	11	9	36
10	University of Texas Austin		17	7	11	42
11	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign		19	10	10	34
12	University of Pennsylvania		30	9	34	20
13	University of Washington		18	12	5	61
14	Carnegie Mellon University		6	24	3	46
15	Columbia University New York		33	13	23	33
16	Purdue University		9	31	12	66
17	University of California Los Angeles		32	20	25	67
18	University of Florida		16	29	18	86
19	University of Chicago		69	15	83	3
20	University of Maryland		68	30	16	26
21	University of Arizona		35	27	14	83
22	Texas A&M University		73	34	13	14
23	Georgia Institute of Technology		27	53	24	18
24	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University		39	44	46	15
25	Princeton University		23	16	41	137
26	University of Cambridge		10	28	53	108
27	Michigan State University		62	25	15	102
28	University of Toronto (Note 1)		59	36	42	50
29	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill		57	22	22	124
30	Rutgers University		52	38	17	84
31	New York University		83	14	37	123
32	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich		21	62	56	30
33	Indiana University		61	21	52	118
34	University of California San Diego		58	40	21	90
35	University of Southern California		41	43	38	92
36	North Carolina State University		13	70	39	49
37	Duke University		76	33	30	111
38	University of Colorado Boulder		36	42	29	136
39	Johns Hopkins University (Note 2)		67	51	90	4
40	California Institute of Technology		126	26	48	55
41	University of Pittsburgh		103	35	58	48
42	Australian National University		51	52	92	35
42	University of Helsinki (Note 3)		22	75	49	40
44	Yale University		56	18	47	189
45	University of Virginia		60	19	36	205
46	University of California Davis		101	32	32	135
47	University of Oxford		106	39	33	112
48	Washington University Saint Louis		46	71	45	85
49	University of British Columbia		129	45	31	88
50	University of Calgary		26	90	75	37