| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | Columbia Basin College | not ranked | #1597 | 4,806 | |
| 1802 | University of Arkansas Community College-Batesville | not ranked | #1615 | 4,777 | |
| 1803 | University of Maryland - University College | not ranked | #1608 | 4,746 | |
| 1804 | Moorpark College | not ranked | #1544 | 4,640 | |
| 1805 | Citrus College | not ranked | #1634 | 4,545 | |
| 1806 | Copiah-Lincoln Community College | not ranked | #1584 | 4,484 | |
| 1807 | Spartanburg Community College | not ranked | #1621 | 4,429 | |
| 1808 | Southwest Wisconsin Technical College | not ranked | #1618 | 4,393 | |
| 1809 | McMurry University | not ranked | #1623 | 4,378 | |
| 1810 | Selma University | not ranked | #1628 | 4,340 | |
| 1811 | Southern College | not ranked | #1648 | 4,296 | |
| 1812 | Oakton Community College | not ranked | #1637 | 4,292 | |
| 1813 | New Mexico State University-Alamogordo | not ranked | #1645 | 4,227 | |
| 1814 | Valencia College | not ranked | #1638 | 4,218 | |
| 1815 | Shawnee State University | not ranked | #1624 | 4,211 | |
| 1816 | Northwest Florida State College | not ranked | #1602 | 4,192 | |
| 1817 | Guilford Technical Community College | not ranked | #1592 | 4,145 | |
| 1818 | Community College of Baltimore County | not ranked | #1660 | 4,137 | |
| 1819 | Tallahassee Community College | not ranked | #1643 | 4,099 | |
| 1820 | Paine College | not ranked | #1665 | 4,086 | |
| 1821 | Louisiana State University-Eunice | not ranked | #1610 | 4,075 | |
| 1822 | Bay de Noc Community College | not ranked | #1622 | 4,012 | |
| 1823 | Fresno City College | not ranked | #1605 | 3,994 | |
| 1824 | Orange County Community College | not ranked | #1641 | 3,916 | |
| 1825 | Chesapeake College | not ranked | #1565 | 3,877 | |
| 1826 | Montgomery County Community College | not ranked | #1523 | 3,850 | |
| 1827 | Union County College | not ranked | #1601 | 3,831 | |
| 1828 | Cabrillo College | not ranked | #1689 | 3,737 | |
| 1829 | College of Southern Idaho | not ranked | #1646 | 3,627 | |
| 1830 | Antelope Valley College | not ranked | #1692 | 3,591 | |
| 1831 | Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center | not ranked | #1685 | 3,583 | |
| 1832 | Cuyahoga Community College District | not ranked | #1651 | 3,575 | |
| 1833 | Ocean County College | not ranked | #1701 | 3,546 | |
| 1834 | Zane State College | not ranked | #1699 | 3,494 | |
| 1835 | College of Lake County | not ranked | #1682 | 3,485 | |
| 1836 | Middlesex County College | not ranked | #1669 | 3,421 | |
| 1837 | Edward Waters University | not ranked | #1717 | 3,403 | |
| 1838 | Eastern Iowa Community College District | not ranked | #1681 | 3,393 | |
| 1839 | State University of New York College of Technology at Alfred | not ranked | #1720 | 3,391 | |
| 1840 | Clatsop Community College | not ranked | #1626 | 3,385 | |
| 1841 | South Texas College of Law | not ranked | #1639 | 3,370 | |
| 1842 | St. Joseph's University-New York | Brooklyn | not ranked | #1690 | 3,335 |
| 1843 | Pasco-Hernando State College | not ranked | #1687 | 3,318 | |
| 1844 | Pasco-Hernando Community College | not ranked | #1686 | 3,318 | |
| 1845 | Albany Technical College | not ranked | #1653 | 3,296 | |
| 1846 | Jamestown Community College | not ranked | #1673 | 3,248 | |
| 1847 | Mesa Community College | not ranked | #1680 | 3,233 | |
| 1848 | Community College of Allegheny County | not ranked | #1728 | 3,215 | |
| 1849 | Anne Arundel Community College | not ranked | #1678 | 3,197 | |
| 1850 | West Shore Community College | not ranked | #1518 | 3,135 |
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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.