US news released its annual ranking of universities in America, and four New York City schools landed in the top 100. Ben Mitchell, a digital content producer who joined PIX11 in 2024 and has covered local and international news since 2021, wrote about the release.
The rankings put Columbia University at 12th, New York University at 31st, Fordham University at 85th and Yeshiva University at 90th. U.S. News based the list on graduation rates, first-year retention rates, financial resources and student-faculty ratio.
U.S. News 2027 rankings
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked first overall in the U.S. News 2027 Best National Universities rankings. Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University and the California Institute of Technology rounded out the top five, setting the national benchmark that the New York schools were measured against.
New York had twelve schools in the top 100, but only four New York City schools are named in the rankings release. The gap leaves eight other New York schools inside the top 100 without identification in the text, even as the list makes clear that New York placed multiple schools among the country’s highest-ranked universities.
West Point and Vermont
The separate U.S. News best national liberal arts colleges rankings placed the United States Military Academy at West Point ninth. Vassar College ranked 12th and Barnard College ranked 19th, giving the broader New York picture a second layer beyond the national universities list.
For readers trying to compare schools, the release gives the rankings that matter most right now: the named New York City universities, their national positions and the criteria U.S. News used to sort them. It does not name the other eight New York schools that helped push the state total to twelve in the top 100.
