美国的好大学不少，综合排名前三十的大学名单如下：
（分别是名次，大学名称，所在城市）：
1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

2

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

3

Yale University

New Haven, CT

4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

5

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

6

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

7

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

8

Columbia University

New York, NY

9

Duke University

Durham, NC

10

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

11

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

12

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

13

Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

14

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

15

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

16

Brown University

Providence, RI

17

Rice University

Houston, TX

18

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

19

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN

20

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

21

University of California--Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

22

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

23

Georgetown University

Washington, DC

24

University of Virginia

CharlottesvilleVA

25

University of California--Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

26

University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

27

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

28

Tufts University

Medford, MA

29

Wake Forest University

WinstonSalemNC

30

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC