The top 50 public national universities

1. University of California-Berkeley
2. University of Virginia
3. University of California-Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
5. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
6. College of William and Mary
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. University of California-San Diego
8. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison
11. University of California-Davis
11. University of Washington
13. University of California-Irvine
13. University of California-Santa Barbara
13. University of Texas-Austin
16. Pennsylvania State University-University Park
17. University of Florida
18. University of Maryland-College Park
19. Ohio State University-Columbus
20. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
20. University of Georgia
20. University of Pittsburgh
23. Texas A&M University-College Station
24. Purdue University-West Lafayette
24. University of Connecticut
24. University of Iowa
27. Clemson University
27. Miami University (Ohio)-Oxford
29. Michigan State University
29. University of Delaware
29. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
29. Virginia Tech
33. Colorado School of Mines
33. Indiana University-Bloomington
35. University of California-Santa Cruz
35. University of Colorado-Boulder
37. SUNY-Binghamton
38. Iowa State University
38. North Carolina State University-Raleigh
38. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
38. University of Kansas
42. University of Alabama
42. University of Missouri-Columbia
42. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
45. Auburn University
45. SUNY-Stony Brook
45. University of Arizona
45. University of California-Riverside
45. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
45. University of Tennessee
45. University of Vermont

Source: U.S.News and World Report