Richart Ruddie

The top 100 Universities According to Google, Yahoo, & Bing

by charto911

If you have read Steven Levy’s book “In the Plex” than you may have recalled a segment where he mentions how Google truly came to prominence when people would start to do searches and see just how relevant the results were compared to Lycos, Hotbot, and Altavista when they searched for University they knew they said Euereka Harvard University is at the top.

This made sense since Harvard is the most notable University in the world and would more than likely have more citations and mentions than other university websites. So without further adieu this search engine experiment is listing the top 100 Colleges and Universities according to the search engines as of July 4th 2012:

Google

  1. Harvard University
  2. University of Phoenix (yes you read that correctly)
  3. University of Washington
  4. University of Chicago
  5. University of Arizona
  6. University of Utah
  7. University of Virginia
  8. UT Austin (this is not their homepage but a list of all universities in the country)
  9. University of Cambridge
  10. University of Oxford
  11. Yale
  12. University of Cincinnati
  13. Memphis
  14. Oregon
  15. Stanford
  16. UCLA
  17. University of Michigan
  18. UCL
  19. UC Berkley
  20. Wisconsin-Madison
  21. University of Edinburgh
  22. University of Minnesota
  23. University of Florida
  24. Duke University
  25. University of Maryland
  26. University of New Mexico
  27. University of Missouri
  28. Notre Dame
  29. University of Pittsburgh
  30. Penn
  31. University of Rochester
  32. University of Southern California
  33. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  34. University of Arkansas
  35. UC Santa Cruz
  36. University of Delaware
  37. UC Bolder
  38. University of Wyoming
  39. UM (Miami)
  40. University of Kansas
  41. Nevada Reno
  42. University of Louisville
  43. UC Davis
  44. University of South Carolina
  45. University of Akron
  46. University of Iowa
  47. Cornell University
  48. UGA
  49. NYU
  50. UMASS Amherst
  51. University of Hawaii
  52. Indiana University
  53. UCONN
  54. University of Vermont
  55. University of Alaska Fairbanks
  56. University of Portland
  57. University of Houston
  58. UC Irvine
  59. University of Denver
  60. Purdue University
  61. Florida State University
  62. CSU – Fort Collins
  63. Johns Hopkins
  64. University of Scranton
  65. UI Chicago
  66. Princeton
  67. University of Kentucky
  68. SUNY Buffalo
  69. Wayne State
  70. University of New Haven
  71. University of Dallas
  72. University of Maine
  73. Texas A & M
  74. UMASS Boston
  75. University of Southern Mississippi
  76. University of New Orleans
  77. Washington University in Saint Louis
  78. University of Nebraska Lincoln
  79. University of Idaho
  80. Washington State University – Pullman
  81. San Francisco State University
  82. University of South Florida
  83. UT Dallas
  84. University of Dayton
  85. Portland State
  86. Carnegie Mellon
  87. UC San Francisco
  88. University of Alaska Anchorage
  89. The University of the Arts
  90. Vanderbilt University
  91. UNC Chapel Hill
  92. UNLV
  93. SUNY Albany
  94. Idaho State
  95. Arizona State
  96. American University
  97. Columbia University
  98. University of Toledo
  99. Utah State
  100. Boston University

Interesting notes about Googles list of the top 100 universities is that both Brown and Dartmouth (ivy league schools) were left out of the rankings. Perhaps they need to work on their SEO or that they belong at the bottom of the rung below a San Francisco based art school, Rochester, and Santa Cruz?

Yahoos Top 100 Universities

  1. University of Phoenix
  2. Harvard
  3. University of Florida
  4. University of Washington
  5. Texas
  6. Stanford
  7. Michigan
  8. Ohio State
  9. Virginia
  10. Yale
  11. Duke
  12. Utah
  13. Texas A & M
  14. University of Arizona
  15. University of Houston
  16. University Kansas
  17. Wayland Baptist
  18. USC
  19. UGA
  20. University of Arizona
  21. Purdue
  22. University of Maryland
  23. Washington University – Saint Louis
  24. University of New Mexico
  25. Delaware
  26. Iowa
  27. Wyoming – Laramie
  28. Notre Dame
  29. Pitt
  30. Rutgers
  31. IU Bloomington
  32. Ohio University
  33. UC San Diego
  34. Texas Tech
  35. University of Miami
  36. University of Akron
  37. UNLV
  38. Florida State
  39. UMASS Amherst
  40. Boston University
  41. University of Kentucky
  42. Penn
  43. Oxford
  44. Syracuse
  45. University of Buffalo
  46. Memphis
  47. Ole Miss.
  48. UCF
  49. SUNY Buffalo
  50. Northwestern
  51. UC San Diego
  52. Illinois Urbana
  53. Cal State Long Beach
  54. University of Cincinnati
  55. Devry University
  56. Binghamton
  57. UNC Charlotte
  58. Colorado State Fort Collins
  59. Michigan State
  60. Depaul University
  61. University of Oxford
  62. Carnegie Mellon
  63. Temple University
  64. Mizzou
  65. NYU
  66. University of Nebraska – Lincoln
  67. Kent State University
  68. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  69. George Washington University
  70. Georgetown
  71. Fordham
  72. Colorado State
  73. University of Alabama
  74. University of Dayton
  75. University of South Carolina
  76. University of Idaho
  77. Virginia Commonwealth
  78. University of British Columbia
  79. Indiana University
  80. UC Riverside
  81. Edinboro University
  82. University of Louisville
  83. Vanderbilt
  84. Columbia University
  85. SMU
  86. Northern Arizona
  87. Lehigh
  88. Iowa State
  89. University of North Dakota
  90. University of New Hampshire
  91. University of Maryland Baltimore County
  92. Park University
  93. University of Rhode Island
  94. Central Connecticut State
  95. Wake Forest
  96. Lander University
  97. Cornell
  98. San Diego State
  99. University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
  100. Shippensburg University

 

(Note I had to change my VPN location to the UK to get unfiltered results)

Bing/Microsofts Top 100 Universities

  1. University of Florida
  2. Harvard University
  3. Phoenix
  4. University of Washington
  5. Stanford University
  6. Michigan
  7. Virginia
  8. UT Austin
  9. Yale
  10. Duke
  11. Utah
  12. Washington University
  13. University of Maryland
  14. Texas A & M
  15. University of Southern California
  16. University of Kansas
  17. University of Houston
  18. The Ohio State University
  19. University of Chicago
  20. University of South Florida
  21. University of New Mexico
  22. Purdue
  23. University of Arizona
  24. University of Georgia
  25. UC Berkley
  26. University of Denver
  27. UT Knoxville
  28. Wyoming – Laramie
  29. University of Pittsburgh
  30. University of Delaware
  31. Notre Dame
  32. Ohio University
  33. Indiana Bloomington
  34. University of Miami
  35. UC San Diego
  36. Texas Tech University
  37. University of Akron
  38. UNLV
  39. FSU
  40. University of Oxford
  41. Carnegie Mellon University
  42. UMASS Amherst
  43. Boston University
  44. Penn
  45. Seton Hall
  46. Washington State
  47. Ole Miss.
  48. University of Memphis
  49. University of Kentucky
  50. Depaul
  51. University of Baltimore
  52. Emory
  53. UCLA
  54. Princeton
  55. UW-Madison
  56. SUNY Albany
  57. UNC Charlotte
  58. University of Oregon
  59. University of Minnesota
  60. University of Leicester
  61. Liberty University
  62. University of Cincinnati
  63. Auburn
  64. UC San Diego
  65. University of Central Florida
  66. Kent State
  67. Cal State Long Beach
  68. NYU
  69. Nebraska – Lincoln
  70. Temple University
  71. University of Calgary
  72. UW – Milwaukee
  73. Binghamton
  74. Colorado State – Fort Collins
  75. Georgetown University
  76. George Washington University
  77. Mizzou
  78. Virginia Commonwealth University
  79. University of Alabama
  80. Fordham University
  81. University of Dayton
  82. University of Idaho
  83. University of Maine
  84. Louisville
  85. University of South Carolina
  86. Northwestern University
  87. Michigan State
  88. Edinboro
  89. UC Riverside
  90. Vanderbilt
  91. University of Cambridge
  92. Southern Methodist
  93. Northern Arizona
  94. Iowa State
  95. University of North Dakota
  96. UNH
  97. Devry
  98. Wake Forest
  99. University of Rhode Island
  100. Cornell