美國大學佔據了全球Top 20大學的50%，全球Top 100大學的30%。全美共有的4,589間大學，其中一些大學擁有全國性排名，而其他大學是區域性排名。具有區域性排名的大學一般不提供博士學位課程。
US News美國大學排行榜在全球備受推崇，其評選的標準是學校教育資源、新生錄取率、學生保留率、學校名譽度、學生教育成本、畢業率和校友捐贈率。學校的專業排名更加傾向於定性評估，比如專業的名譽度。
萬威教育旨在幫助香港學生升讀美國Top100的大學。
美國大學有兩種考試來評估學生的學術能力，分別是SAT和ACT，並且每年不同時段都會舉行，建議香港學生在中五下學期參加SAT/ACT測試。
排名 | 大學 | 錄取人數 | 錄取率 | SAT/ACT (25-75%) |
#1 | Princeton University | 8,088 | 7.4% | 1400-1600 |
#2 | Harvard University | 19,929 | 6% | 1410-1600 |
#3 | Yale University | 12,336 | 6.3% | 1410-1600 |
#4 | Columbia University | 24,221 | 7% | 1390-1600 |
#4 | Stanford University | 16,795 | 5.1% | 1380-1570 |
#4 | University of Chicago | 12,558 | 8.8% | 1430-1590 |
#7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11,319 | 7.9% | 1420-1570 |
#8 | Duke University | 15,856 | 11.4% | 1370-1550 |
#9 | University of Pennsylvania | 21,296 | 10.4% | 1360-1550 |
#10 | California Institute of Technology | 2,209 | 8.8% | 1500-1600 |
#10 | Johns Hopkins University | 21,484 | 15% | 1360-1530 |
#12 | Dartmouth College | 6,298 | 11.5% | 1360-1550 |
#12 | Northwestern University | 20,336 | 13.1% | 1390-1560 |
#14 | Brown University | 9,181 | 8.7% | 1330-1550 |
#15 | Cornell University | 21,850 | 14.2% | 1330-1510 |
#15 | Vanderbilt University | 12,686 | 13.1% | 32-34(ACT) |
#15 | Washington University in St. Louis | 14,348 | 17.1% | 32-34(ACT) |
#18 | Rice University | 6,621 | 15.1% | 1390-1550 |
#18 | University of Notre Dame | 12,179 | 21.1% | 32-34(ACT) |
#20 | University of California—Berkeley | 37,581 | 16% | 1290-1490 |
#21 | Emory University | 14,769 | 26.8% | 1280-1460 |
#21 | Georgetown University | 17,858 | 17.4% | 1320-1520 |
#23 | Carnegie Mellon University | 13,285 | 24.6% | 1340-1540 |
#23 | University of California—Los Angeles | 43,239 | 18.6% | 1190-1460 |
#23 | University of Southern California | 42,469 | 18% | 1280-1480 |
#26 | University of Virginia | 23,732 | 29% | 1250-1460 |
#27 | Tufts University | 10,907 | 17.3% | 1360-1520 |
#27 | Wake Forest University | 7,788 | 34.4% | 1210-1420 |
#29 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor | 43,625 | 32.2% | 29-33(ACT) |
#30 | Boston College | 13,575 | 33.9% | 1270-1460 |
#30 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill | 29,135 | 28.5% | 1210-1400 |
#32 | New York University | 49,274 | 35.5% | 1240-1450 |
#33 | University of Rochester | 11,060 | 36.4% | 1240-1450 |
#34 | Brandeis University | 5,945 | 35.2% | 1250-1480 |
#34 | College of William and Mary | 8,437 | 33% | 1270-1470 |
#36 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 23,109 | 33.4% | 1310-1490 |
#37 | Case Western Reserve University | 10,771 | 38.3% | 1270-1470 |
#37 | University of California—Santa Barbara | 23,051 | 36.3% | 1120-1380 |
#39 | University of California—Irvine | 30,051 | 37.4% | 1040-1310 |
#39 | University of California—San Diego | 29,909 | 33.5% | 1180-1420 |
#41 | Boston University | 32,112 | 34.5% | 1190-1410 |
#41 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 7,028 | 37.5% | 1300-1490 |
#41 | Tulane University | 13,531 | 28% | 29-32(ACT) |
#41 | University of California—Davis | 34,508 | 40.6% | 1080-1350 |
#41 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign | 45,140 | 59% | 26-32(ACT) |
#41 | University of Wisconsin—Madison | 43,193 | 49.8% | 26-31(ACT) |
#47 | Lehigh University | 7,119 | 34.3% | 1230-1410 |
#47 | Northeastern University | 19,798 | 32.2% | 1340-1500 |
#47 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park | 47,040 | 50.3% | 1090-1290 |
#47 | University of Florida | 50,350 | 47.1% | 1170-1360 |
#51 | University of Miami | 16,774 | 38.2% | 1220-1420 |
資料來源：http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
