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U.S. News and World Report Best National Universities

YearPitt Rank OverallPitt Rank PublicsPitt Rank AAUPitt Rank AAU Publics
200371315126
200467284923
200566264923
200658194318
200757194318
200859204520
200958204519
201056204419
201164234721
201258194418
201358194418
201462214418
201562204418
201666244620
201768244620
201868244620
201970264822
202057184216
202158194417
202259204517
202362234820
202467325325
202570325625

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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