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Location of Top 50 U.S. Universities

Each year, US News and World Report ranks the top US universities. Even though it's completely arbitrary and wrong, try to guess the locations of the top 50.
2025–26 school year
For Washington University, the first one is in Missouri
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Last updated: November 18, 2025
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School
Location
1
_______
Princeton
2
MIT
Cambridge
3
Harvard
Cambridge
4
Yale
New Haven
Stanford
Palo Alto
6
______
Chicago
7
Penn
Philadelphia
Duke
Durham
Northwestern
Evanston
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
11
Caltech
Pasadena
12
Cornell
Ithaca
13
Brown
Providence
Dartmouth
Hanover
15
UC _______
Berkeley
Columbia
New York
17
UCLA
Los Angeles
Vanderbilt
Nashville
Rice
Houston
20
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Washington
St. Louis
Notre Dame
South Bend
Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh
24
Georgetown
Washington
24
Emory
Atlanta
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School
Location
26
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Virginia
Charlottesville
28
USC
Los Angeles
29
UCSD
San Diego
30
Texas
Austin
Florida
Gainesville
32
NYU
New York
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
UC ____
Irvine
UC ___
Davis
36
_____ College
Boston
Illinois
Champaign-Urbana
Wisconsin
Madison
Tufts
Medford
40
UC ____ _______
Santa Barbara
41
Ohio State
Columbus
42
Washington
Seattle
_____ University
Boston
Maryland
College Park
Rutgers
New Brunswick
46
Georgia
Athens
Purdue
West Lafayette
Northeastern
Boston
________
Rochester
Lehigh
Bethlehem
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2 Comments
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2025
Fun quiz, thank you! One typo on UCSD, you accidentally spelled it "USCD". You also did slightly different formatting from the other UC's.
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Level 76
Nov 18, 2025
fixed