American Universities Ranked by Research

Surprising positions of American Universities ranked at http://mup.asu.edu/research.html

Columbia at the top, UCLA way down at 12. For the rationale see the Center for Measuring University Performance's website.

Top American Research Universities (1-25)

1. Columbia University
2. Harvard University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. Johns Hopkins University
6. Duke University
7. University of California - Berkeley
8. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
9. Yale University
10. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
11. University of Washington - Seattle
12. University of California - Los Angeles
13. Cornell University
14. Washington University in St. Louis
15. University of Wisconsin - Madison
16. University of California - San Francisco
17. University of Chicago
18. Univ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
19. University of California - San Diego
20. Univ of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
21. Princeton University
22. Northwestern University
23. University of Southern California
24. Ohio State University - Columbus
25. University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
26. Vanderbilt University
27. California Institute of Technology
28. University of Florida
29. University of Texas - Austin
30. Penn State University - Univ Park
31. Texas A&M University
32. Brown University
33. Emory University
34. University of Arizona
35. University of California - Davis
36. University of Virginia
37. New York University
38. Purdue University - West Lafayette
39. Baylor College of Medicine
40. Dartmouth College
41. Rice University
42. Univ of Texas SW Medical Ctr - Dallas
43. University of Maryland - College Park
44. Michigan State University
45. University of Colorado - Boulder
46. Rockefeller University
47. University of California - Irvine
48. University of California - Santa Barbara
49. University of Notre Dame
50. Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr