| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | McHenry County College | not ranked | #1766 | 2,029 | |
| 1902 | Columbia Southern University | not ranked | #1823 | 2,022 | |
| 1903 | Iowa Western Community College | not ranked | #1831 | 2,004 | |
| 1904 | Lake Superior College | not ranked | #1845 | 1,973 | |
| 1905 | Edison State Community College | not ranked | #1859 | 1,972 | |
| 1906 | Los Angeles Valley College | not ranked | #1863 | 1,935 | |
| 1907 | Quinsigamond Community College | not ranked | #1824 | 1,935 | |
| 1908 | Blackfeet Community College | not ranked | #1800 | 1,929 | |
| 1909 | Kankakee Community College | not ranked | #1835 | 1,927 | |
| 1910 | Judson College | not ranked | #1856 | 1,906 | |
| 1911 | Morris College | not ranked | #1779 | 1,879 | |
| 1912 | Kilgore College | not ranked | #1840 | 1,871 | |
| 1913 | Colby Community College | not ranked | #1778 | 1,806 | |
| 1914 | Mott Community College | not ranked | #1875 | 1,797 | |
| 1915 | John A Logan College | not ranked | #1568 | 1,713 | |
| 1916 | Trinidad State Junior College | not ranked | #1850 | 1,703 | |
| 1917 | Eastern Oklahoma State College | not ranked | #1899 | 1,674 | |
| 1918 | Itasca Community College | not ranked | #1832 | 1,658 | |
| 1919 | Rainy River Community College | not ranked | #1833 | 1,658 | |
| 1920 | Columbia Gorge Community College | not ranked | #1866 | 1,641 | |
| 1921 | Labette Community College | not ranked | #1906 | 1,618 | |
| 1922 | Spokane Falls Community College | not ranked | #1764 | 1,607 | |
| 1923 | Nashua Community College | not ranked | #1892 | 1,595 | |
| 1924 | Butler County Community College | not ranked | #1818 | 1,594 | |
| 1925 | Manhattan Area Technical College | not ranked | #1888 | 1,538 | |
| 1926 | Cowley County Community College | not ranked | #1843 | 1,536 | |
| 1927 | National Park Community College | not ranked | #1595 | 1,519 | |
| 1928 | New England Institute of Technology | not ranked | #1884 | 1,515 | |
| 1929 | Pulaski Technical College | not ranked | #1921 | 1,513 | |
| 1930 | Arapahoe Community College | not ranked | #1759 | 1,487 | |
| 1931 | Northeast Iowa Community College | not ranked | #1932 | 1,471 | |
| 1932 | Kirkwood Community College | not ranked | #1945 | 1,440 | |
| 1933 | Baptist Bible College | not ranked | #1948 | 1,438 | |
| 1934 | Treasure Valley Community College | not ranked | #1881 | 1,426 | |
| 1935 | Milwaukee Area Technical College | not ranked | #1923 | 1,420 | |
| 1936 | Golden West College | not ranked | #1723 | 1,411 | |
| 1937 | Community College of Vermont | not ranked | #1857 | 1,400 | |
| 1938 | Southern Virginia University | not ranked | #1937 | 1,397 | |
| 1939 | Inver Hills Community College | not ranked | #1934 | 1,394 | |
| 1940 | Cuesta College | not ranked | #1904 | 1,393 | |
| 1941 | Daniel Webster College | not ranked | #1769 | 1,366 | |
| 1942 | Garrett College | not ranked | #1706 | 1,365 | |
| 1943 | Yosemite Community College District | not ranked | #1838 | 1,349 | |
| 1944 | Southwest Tennessee Community College | not ranked | #1952 | 1,337 | |
| 1945 | Mendocino College | not ranked | #1885 | 1,330 | |
| 1946 | Kalamazoo Valley Community College | not ranked | #1960 | 1,328 | |
| 1947 | Southwestern College (KS) | not ranked | #1869 | 1,326 | |
| 1948 | University of Arkansas Community College-Hope | not ranked | #1936 | 1,324 | |
| 1949 | Grossmont College | not ranked | #1967 | 1,318 | |
| 1950 | Middlesex Community College | not ranked | #1924 | 1,313 |
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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.