| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | State University of New York at Buffalo | #491 (2024) | #116 | 11,738,556 | |
| 102 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | #494 (2024) | #118 | 4,224,077 | |
| 103 | Brandeis University | #497 (2023) | #119 | 5,708,172 | |
| 104 | Colorado School of Mines | #501 (2025) | #120 | 2,055,920 | |
| 105 | Oregon State University | #505 (2024) | #121 | 8,418,452 | |
| 106 | University of Delaware | #506 (2025) | #122 | 7,257,284 | |
| 107 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | #527 (2025) | #123 | 1,948,358 | |
| 108 | University of Utah | #531 (2025) | #124 | 21,152,491 | |
| 109 | CUNY Baruch College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 110 | CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 111 | CUNY Bronx Community College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 112 | CUNY Brooklyn College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 113 | CUNY City College of NY | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 114 | CUNY College of Staten Island | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 115 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 116 | CUNY Hostos Community College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 117 | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 118 | CUNY Kingsborough Community College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 119 | CUNY Lehman College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 120 | CUNY Macauly Honors College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 121 | CUNY Queens College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 122 | CUNY Queensborough Community College | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 123 | CUNY School of Law | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 124 | Hunter College CUNY | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 125 | City University of New York | #545 (2024) | #148 | 4,302,690 | |
| 126 | CUNY LaGuardia Community College | #545 (2024) | #139 | 4,302,690 | |
| 127 | CUNY City Tech | #545 (2024) | #132 | 4,302,690 | |
| 128 | CUNY Medgar Evers College | #545 (2024) | #142 | 4,302,690 | |
| 129 | CUNY York College | #545 (2024) | #147 | 4,302,690 | |
| 130 | Lehigh University | #548 (2024) | #151 | 2,348,469 | |
| 131 | University of South Florida | Tampa | #563 (2024) | #152 | 8,256,290 |
| 132 | University of Connecticut | #565 (2025) | #153 | 8,562,963 | |
| 133 | Florida State University | #573 (2025) | #154 | 8,727,342 | |
| 134 | Florida International University | #574 (2025) | #155 | 3,631,304 | |
| 135 | University of South Carolina | #575 (2024) | #156 | 7,808,375 | |
| 136 | University of Central Florida | #593 (2024) | #158 | 4,690,216 | |
| 137 | University of Iowa | #596 (2025) | #159 | 19,370,021 | |
| 138 | Tulane University | #600 (2024) | #160 | 7,670,253 | |
| 139 | Northwestern University | not ranked | #164 | 36,668,431 | |
| 140 | Pennsylvania State University | not ranked | #165 | 28,705,627 | |
| 141 | Pennsylvania State University - Schuylkill Campus | not ranked | #165 | 28,705,627 | |
| 142 | University of Maryland, Baltimore | not ranked | #174 | 16,969,720 | |
| 143 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | not ranked | #175 | 16,536,534 | |
| 144 | Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis | not ranked | #176 | 14,412,809 | |
| 145 | Einsteinmed | not ranked | #177 | 13,327,105 | |
| 146 | Rockefeller University | not ranked | #178 | 13,134,288 | |
| 147 | Oregon Health Sciences University | not ranked | #179 | 12,765,777 | |
| 148 | University of Kentucky | not ranked | #182 | 11,973,307 | |
| 149 | Wayne State University | not ranked | #181 | 11,241,502 | |
| 150 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | not ranked | #184 | 10,885,192 |
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What the two columns mean
In-country is the position the ranking record gives the university among those in its own country, and it is often the more useful number: a university ranked 480th in the world may still be third at home. It is carried over as published, so it does not always follow the order of the other two columns. World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.
The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.