2023 World Rankings: List of Top 10 Universities in United States
- The latest ranking for the best universities in the world for the year 2023 has been released by Times Higher Education (THE)
- This year's list was dominated by schools in the United States of America with Oxford University in England holding on top spot
- However, Harvard University in Massachusetts is the best tertiary institution in the United States and also the second best in the world
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The 2023 rankings for the best universities in the world have been released according to their rankings by the Times Higher Education (THE), the world's most recognised authoritative magazine for academic rankings.
The new rankings were released on Wednesday, October 12. According to Times Higher Education (THE), the new ranking is a great resource to help students choose a university, regardless of which subject they want to study or which country they want to study in.
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However, the latest ranking saw seven Universities from the United States dominate the top ten world ranking.
Sadly, the top spot was held by the University of Oxford in England while Harvard University held firmly to the second spot in the world and number one in the United States.
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Meanwhile, Stanford University in California holds the third spot in the world and the second spot in the United States, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology settled for the fifth spot in the world and finished third in the United States.
This short piece will look at the top ten best universities in the United States of America.
Below are the top 10 universities in the United States
| US Rank 2023 | World University Rank 2023 | University | City | State |
| 1 | 2 | Harvard University | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| 2 | 3 | Stanford University | Stanford | eCalifornia |
| 3 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| 4 | 6 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena | eCalifornia |
| 5 | 7 | Princeton University | Princeton | New Jersey |
| 6 | 8 | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley | California |
| 7 | 9 | Yale University | New Haven | Connecticut |
| 8 | 11 | Columbia University | New York City | New York |
| 9 | 13 | The University of Chicago | Chicago | Illinois |
| 10 | 14 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
List of top 10 varsities in Nigeria emerges
Meanwhile, the University of Ibadan has maintained its number-one spot as the best university in Nigeria for the year 2023
According to Times Higher Education, the University of Lagos occupies the second spot but ties the UI in the world ranking
Covenant University held on to the third spot as it did in the previous and was ranked between 601-800 in the world
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