2007年8月17日美国新闻和世界周刊（US News and World Report）发布了最新大学排名。以下是美国公立大学排名：

Top 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 (VA)

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 (NJ)

20 University of Georgia

20 University of Pittsburgh

23 Texas A&M University–College Station

24 Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN)

24 University of Connecticut

24 University of Iowa

27 Clemson University (SC)

27 Miami University–Oxford (OH)

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 (AL)

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

52 University of New Hampshire

52 University of Oklahoma

54 Florida State University

54 Ohio University

54 University of Oregon

54 University of South Carolina–Columbia

58 University at Buffalo–SUNY

58 University of Missouri–Rolla

58 Washington State University

61 University of Kentucky

62 Arizona State University

62 Colorado State University

62 Kansas State University

62 Michigan Technological University

62 New Jersey Institute of Technology

62 University of Arkansas