The USA is one of the preferred destinations for research scholars to pursue higher education (research programs). This blog post aims to provide a list of the top 100 research institutes in the United States of America (USA). These top research institutes are listed and sorted based on their research output and research citations.
Top US universities for Ph.D. in computer science
List of the top 100 research institutes in the USA
S. No. | Institution Name | Research | Citations | International Outlook |
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1 | Harvard University | 99.0 | 99.3 | 80.5 |
2 | California Institute of Technology | 97.0 | 97.3 | 83.6 |
3 | Stanford University | 96.7 | 99.8 | 79.8 |
4 | Princeton University | 95.9 | 99.1 | 80.3 |
5 | University of California, Berkeley | 95.8 | 99.0 | 78.4 |
6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 93.6 | 99.8 | 89.3 |
7 | Yale University | 92.7 | 97.0 | 70.9 |
8 | Johns Hopkins University | 91.5 | 97.0 | 75.3 |
9 | University of California, Los Angeles | 88.9 | 95.4 | 65.0 |
10 | The University of Chicago | 88.8 | 97.7 | 74.2 |
11 | University of Pennsylvania | 88.8 | 97.0 | 71.5 |
12 | Columbia University | 87.7 | 97.1 | 79.9 |
13 | Cornell University | 86.1 | 97.3 | 76.9 |
14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 84.6 | 93.6 | 59.2 |
15 | New York University | 84.0 | 95.0 | 74.7 |
16 | University of Washington | 82.8 | 98.9 | 63.0 |
17 | Carnegie Mellon University | 81.8 | 98.7 | 80.1 |
18 | Northwestern University | 80.7 | 97.5 | 67.0 |
19 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 78.9 | 78.1 | 56.2 |
20 | University of California, San Diego | 77.2 | 98.2 | 67.8 |
21 | Duke University | 76.2 | 95.7 | 68.0 |
22 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 75.9 | 91.4 | 81.2 |
23 | University of Texas at Austin | 73.1 | 87.5 | 40.1 |
24 | University of California, Davis | 66.3 | 80.9 | 68.7 |
25 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 64.2 | 56.9 | 71.1 |
26 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 62.9 | 78.7 | 51.8 |
27 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 61.5 | 96.2 | 76.0 |
28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 59.7 | 93.3 | 41.7 |
29 | University of Florida | 58.7 | 64.2 | 41.4 |
30 | University of Southern California | 58.6 | 90.4 | 63.7 |
31 | Brown University | 58.0 | 89.5 | 63.3 |
32 | University of Maryland, College Park | 57.7 | 89.7 | 42.6 |
33 | University of Minnesota | 56.9 | 81.2 | 41.7 |
34 | Washington University in St Louis | 56.8 | 98.2 | 64.0 |
35 | Boston University | 56.1 | 92.9 | 65.9 |
36 | Michigan State University | 55.6 | 78.8 | 61.9 |
37 | Texas A&M University | 54.8 | 63.2 | 56.0 |
38 | Penn State (Main campus) | 53.8 | 75.2 | 48.3 |
39 | University of California, Irvine | 51.6 | 93.6 | 73.2 |
40 | Ohio State University (Main campus) | 51.2 | 83.4 | 60.3 |
41 | Arizona State University (Tempe) | 47.9 | 79.6 | 62.5 |
42 | Vanderbilt University | 47.5 | 96.5 | 50.6 |
43 | University of Arizona | 47.0 | 78.7 | 41.3 |
44 | University of Colorado Boulder | 46.3 | 85.5 | 45.6 |
45 | Emory University | 46.0 | 98.0 | 59.8 |
46 | Rutgers University – New Brunswick | 43.6 | 73.0 | 53.9 |
47 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus | 42.9 | 90.6 | 43.4 |
48 | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | 41.7 | 66.0 | 66.9 |
49 | Case Western Reserve University | 40.6 | 90.7 | 52.9 |
50 | University of Notre Dame | 40.5 | 67.7 | 59.3 |
51 | University of Rochester | 40.5 | 87.0 | 73.8 |
52 | Dartmouth College | 40.4 | 88.2 | 42.0 |
53 | University of Virginia (Main campus) | 39.8 | 86.6 | 52.5 |
54 | Rice University | 39.7 | 84.4 | 75.3 |
55 | Indiana University | 39.4 | 85.5 | 54.3 |
56 | University of Delaware | 39.0 | 64.9 | 51.5 |
57 | North Carolina State University | 38.2 | 59.7 | 54.8 |
58 | Florida State University | 37.3 | 67.5 | 47.8 |
59 | Iowa State University | 36.9 | 56.5 | 39.5 |
60 | University of South Florida | 36.9 | 85.1 | 56.2 |
61 | Tufts University | 36.7 | 92.2 | 51.4 |
62 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 36.2 | 73.7 | 56.8 |
63 | Georgetown University | 35.0 | 88.0 | 49.1 |
64 | University of Utah | 34.9 | 81.7 | 33.9 |
65 | University at Buffalo | 33.7 | 67.7 | 63.7 |
66 | University of Massachusetts | 33.5 | 87.8 | 65.0 |
67 | University of Miami | 33.5 | 81.0 | 60.2 |
68 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 33.3 | 95.9 | 67.9 |
69 | George Washington University | 32.8 | 83.2 | 56.9 |
70 | University of California, Riverside | 32.7 | 81.4 | 65.3 |
71 | Washington State University | 32.7 | 69.6 | 50.1 |
72 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 32.4 | 74.6 | 53.1 |
73 | University of Texas at El Paso | 31.7 | 32.8 | 41.6 |
74 | University of Iowa | 31.6 | 70.7 | 46.2 |
75 | Boston College | 31.5 | 74.9 | 48.5 |
76 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 31.0 | 60.5 | 56.1 |
77 | Colorado School of Mines | 30.3 | 63.0 | 37.1 |
78 | Northeastern University, US | 30.2 | 96.2 | 76.3 |
79 | Colorado State University, Fort Collins | 29.6 | 72.3 | 39.1 |
80 | University of Central Florida | 29.5 | 60.1 | 34.4 |
81 | University of Connecticut | 29.3 | 59.8 | 54.8 |
82 | University of New Mexico (Main campus) | 29.3 | 74.5 | 37.6 |
83 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 28.4 | 79.0 | 46.7 |
84 | University of Houston | 28.0 | 48.8 | 43.2 |
85 | Syracuse University | 28.0 | 64.3 | 50.7 |
86 | University of Arkansas | 27.6 | 48.5 | 30.6 |
87 | Florida International University | 27.4 | 62.7 | 41.7 |
88 | University of Kentucky | 27.3 | 59.2 | 39.0 |
89 | University of Texas at Dallas | 27.0 | 81.3 | 56.4 |
90 | Georgia State University | 26.9 | 65.2 | 43.4 |
91 | George Mason University | 26.8 | 84.0 | 50.0 |
92 | Stony Brook University | 26.8 | 76.1 | 69.5 |
93 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 26.7 | 61.3 | 62.9 |
94 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 26.1 | 51.0 | 72.6 |
95 | Drexel University | 26.0 | 76.4 | 50.1 |
96 | University of Georgia | 25.8 | 52.8 | 37.6 |
97 | SUNY University at Albany | 25.7 | 71.4 | 50.4 |
98 | University of Dayton | 25.4 | 29.5 | 33.1 |
99 | Mizzou – University of Missouri | 25.3 | 52.1 | 44.7 |
100 | University of Alaska Fairbanks | 24.9 | 70.0 | 60.0 |