Top Public and Private Colleges in the Northeast

The top 10 private schools in the region are all in the nation’s top 20 overall in the WSJ/THE College Rankings

All of the top 10 Northeastern private schools in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings are among the top 20 schools of any kind nationwide.

The highest-ranked public school in the Northeast is the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus, ranked No. 96 among all schools nationally. That makes it the country’s No. 25 public school. Three schools are tied for No. 2 among public schools in the Northeast—the University of Connecticut, Pennsylvania State University and Stony Brook University, all ranked...