Colorado home to 3 of the worlds top universities
Aug 3, 2026, 2:06 PM
While we may not have Harvard or MIT, Colorado is home to 3 of the top universities in the world according to USNews.com.
The list, which ranks the top universities in the world based on 13 seperate ranking factors focused on institutions research performance, placed University of Colorado Boulder at #105 which had high rankings in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (#4), Geosciences (#7), Space Science (#35) and Physics (#42).
Other schools that made the list included University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (#193), Colorado State University (#347) and University of Colorado-Denver (#447)
The top 3 overall schools were Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University.
