A selection of the most renowned (non-Ivy-League) universities in the USA, arranged in alphabetical order.

click on the name to find out more about each of these famous universities:

• Berkeley, University of California *

• Boston University *

• California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadena) *

• Carnegie Mellon University *

• University of Chicago *

• University of Colorado Boulder *

• Duke University *

• Emory University *

• University of Florida *

• Georgetown University *

• Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) *

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai *

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign *

• Johns Hopkins University *

• University of Maryland *

• University of Michigan *

• University of Minnesota Twin Cities *

• MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology) *

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *

• Northwestern University *

• University of Notre Dame *

• NYU (New York University) *

• The Ohio State University *

• University of Pittsburgh *

• Rice University *

• Stanford University *

• University of Texas at Austin *

• UC Davis *

• UC San Diego (University of California San Diego) *

• UC Santa Barbara *

• UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) *

• UCSF (University of California San Francisco) *

• Vanderbilt University *

• University of Virginia *

• University of Washington (Seattle) *

• Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL) *

• University of Wisconsin - Madison *

A 'top 100' list of universities in the USA *

Photo - Danforth Campus, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Photo - Wikimedia Commons