#14: Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The university is linked directly to the Johns Hopkins Hospital as its largest philanthropic gift to the country. Johns Hopkins University has the most sought-after medical school in the United States where only the best and the brightest are accepted. The school has an acceptance rate of 14% thus making it worthy to be on the list. The school ranked 11th among the undergraduate programs in the US News 2017 edition and 10th among global university rankings by the US News & World Report. Since it was founded in 1883, it has produced 36 Nobel Prize laureates to date.