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Forbes America's Top Colleges

YearPitt Rank OverallPitt Rank PublicsPitt Rank AAUPitt Rank AAU Publics
2008297554220
2009285524017
2010201344016
2011336645226
2012265575428
2013193565227
2014198515227
2015212475428
2016204545327
2017154394923
2018151435226
2019144385024
2021152716031
2022209925729
20232351136837
2024-2025143636031

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AAU Universities

Public 

  • Arizona State University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Indiana University
  • Michigan State University
  • The Ohio State University 
  • The Pennsylvania State University 
  • Purdue University 
  • Rutgers University – New Brunswick 
  • Stony Brook University – The State University of New York 
  • Texas A&M University
  • University at Buffalo – The State University of New York 
  • The University of Arizona 
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Berkeley 
  • University of California, Irvine 
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of California, San Diego 
  • University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • University of California, Santa Cruz 
  • University of Colorado, Boulder 
  • University of Florida 
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • The University of Iowa 
  • The University of Kansas 
  • University of Maryland at College Park 
  • University of Michigan 
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
  • University of Missouri, Columbia 
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  • University of Oregon 
  • University of Pittsburgh 
  • University of South Florida 
  • The University of Texas at Austin 
  • The University of Utah 
  • University of Virginia 
  • University of Washington 
  • The University of Wisconsin – Madison 

Private

  • Boston University
  • Brandeis University 
  • Brown University 
  • California Institute of Technology 
  • Carnegie Mellon University 
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Columbia University 
  • Cornell University 
  • Dartmouth College 
  • Duke University 
  • Emory University 
  • Harvard University 
  • The George Washington University 
  • The Johns Hopkins University 
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • New York University 
  • Northwestern University
  • Princeton University 
  • Rice University 
  • Stanford University 
  • Tufts University 
  • Tulane University 
  • The University of Chicago 
  • University of Miami 
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Pennsylvania 
  • University of Rochester 
  • University of Southern California
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Yale University

Canadian

  • McGill University 
  • University of Toronto