Ranked by institutional standing
Best universities in USA
55 of the 791 USA universities in our catalogue carry a standing tier, the same signal that orders Bramica's own programme search. Tier 1 is the strongest. Standing is one input, not a verdict: admission odds, cost and your subject matter more, and every university page links its official website.
Tier 1
- New York University751 programmes
- University of Pennsylvania595 programmes
- Johns Hopkins University548 programmes
- University of California Berkeley249 programmes
- Columbia University239 programmes
- University of California, Los Angeles204 programmes
- Stanford University197 programmes
- Northwestern University194 programmes
- Yale University146 programmes
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology137 programmes
- Harvard University114 programmes
- California Institute of Technology51 programmes
- Duke University43 programmes
- Carnegie Mellon University40 programmes
- Cornell University36 programmes
- Dartmouth College36 programmes
- University of Michigan27 programmes
- University of Chicago26 programmes
- Princeton University25 programmes
- Brown University18 programmes
Tier 2
- Washington University in St. Louis436 programmes
- University of Colorado Boulder408 programmes
- Georgia Institute of Technology387 programmes
- Rice University371 programmes
- University of California, Davis361 programmes
- Northeastern University334 programmes
- Pennsylvania State University173 programmes
- Texas A&M University167 programmes
- Case Western Reserve University151 programmes
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign132 programmes
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill111 programmes
- Stony Brook University98 programmes
- Purdue University94 programmes
- University of Wisconsin-Madison67 programmes
- University of Southern California59 programmes
- University of Notre Dame55 programmes
- University of Washington55 programmes
- University of Minnesota53 programmes
- University of Pittsburgh51 programmes
- University of Rochester51 programmes
- Emory University50 programmes
- University of Texas at Austin49 programmes
- Boston University48 programmes
- The Ohio State University47 programmes
- Arizona State University42 programmes
- University of Virginia40 programmes
- Vanderbilt University35 programmes
- University of Florida30 programmes
- University of California, San Diego27 programmes
- Georgetown University26 programmes
- Rutgers University24 programmes
- University of California, Irvine22 programmes
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick19 programmes
- Tufts University14 programmes
- University of California, Santa Barbara13 programmes
Best for you is not best on paper
A free eligibility check weighs these universities against your marks, budget and test scores, and shows where you actually stand a chance in USA and 12 other countries.
Tiers reflect broad institutional standing, not per-subject strength, and change slowly. Bramica is independent and takes no commission from any university, recruiter or agency.