Top 100 research institutes in USA

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
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