| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 | Lane Community College | not ranked | #1742 | 3,038 | |
| 1852 | Texas State Technical College-Marshall | not ranked | #1733 | 3,036 | |
| 1853 | Texas State Technical College-West Texas | not ranked | #1735 | 3,036 | |
| 1854 | Wayland Baptist University | not ranked | #1666 | 3,031 | |
| 1855 | Joliet Junior College | not ranked | #1740 | 3,025 | |
| 1856 | Adirondack Community College | not ranked | #1743 | 2,992 | |
| 1857 | Technical Career Institutes | not ranked | #1557 | 2,897 | |
| 1858 | Vermont Technical College | not ranked | #1737 | 2,870 | |
| 1859 | SUNY Maritime College | not ranked | #1757 | 2,839 | |
| 1860 | Washington State Community College | not ranked | #1736 | 2,815 | |
| 1861 | Roane State Community College | not ranked | #1768 | 2,789 | |
| 1862 | Strayer College | not ranked | #1619 | 2,741 | |
| 1863 | Hawkeye Community College | not ranked | #1716 | 2,728 | |
| 1864 | College of the Canyons | not ranked | #1700 | 2,723 | |
| 1865 | Chattanooga State Community College | not ranked | #1746 | 2,713 | |
| 1866 | Jarvis Christian College | not ranked | #1703 | 2,667 | |
| 1867 | Illinois Eastern Community Colleges | not ranked | #1506 | 2,652 | |
| 1868 | NorthWest Arkansas Community College | not ranked | #1774 | 2,622 | |
| 1869 | Lakeland Community College | not ranked | #1755 | 2,617 | |
| 1870 | Black Hawk College | not ranked | #1776 | 2,599 | |
| 1871 | Truckee Meadows Community College | not ranked | #1748 | 2,558 | |
| 1872 | Wayne County Community College District | not ranked | #1762 | 2,550 | |
| 1873 | Philander Smith College | not ranked | #1798 | 2,515 | |
| 1874 | Santa Fe Community College | not ranked | #1753 | 2,505 | |
| 1875 | Anoka-Ramsey Community College | not ranked | #1667 | 2,499 | |
| 1876 | Davidson County Community College | not ranked | #1754 | 2,487 | |
| 1877 | State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill | not ranked | #1785 | 2,468 | |
| 1878 | Herkimer County Community College | not ranked | #1807 | 2,443 | |
| 1879 | Monroe County Community College | not ranked | #1790 | 2,425 | |
| 1880 | Greenleaf University | not ranked | #1763 | 2,413 | |
| 1881 | Nash Community College | not ranked | #1791 | 2,413 | |
| 1882 | Cincinnati State Technical and Community College | not ranked | #1747 | 2,308 | |
| 1883 | Delgado Community College | not ranked | #484 | 2,301 | |
| 1884 | Tohono O'Odham Community College | not ranked | #1752 | 2,282 | |
| 1885 | Henry Ford College | not ranked | #1715 | 2,238 | |
| 1886 | Parkland College | not ranked | #1789 | 2,210 | |
| 1887 | Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College | not ranked | #1714 | 2,194 | |
| 1888 | Ohlone College | not ranked | #1839 | 2,183 | |
| 1889 | Northwest College | not ranked | #1705 | 2,182 | |
| 1890 | Lorain County Community College | not ranked | #1834 | 2,167 | |
| 1891 | Orange Coast College | not ranked | #1442 | 2,147 | |
| 1892 | Vance-Granville Community College | not ranked | #1590 | 2,137 | |
| 1893 | Mt. Hood Community College | not ranked | #1797 | 2,122 | |
| 1894 | Northwestern Michigan College | not ranked | #1772 | 2,101 | |
| 1895 | Manor College | not ranked | #1810 | 2,095 | |
| 1896 | College of Southern Maryland | not ranked | #1819 | 2,074 | |
| 1897 | Laramie County Community College | not ranked | #1812 | 2,073 | |
| 1898 | Western Wyoming Community College | not ranked | #1813 | 2,073 | |
| 1899 | Tompkins Cortland Community College | not ranked | #1770 | 2,048 | |
| 1900 | Long Beach City College | not ranked | #1844 | 2,043 |
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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.