<p>The list can be quite long but if I can do it, I’d rank the PUBLIC universities for UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION this way:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UCLA, Georgia Tech</li>
</ol>
<p>6 - U of Tokyo, UVA, William & Mary, UNC, Wisconsin, UCSD, the best ones in Canada (McGill, Toronto, UBC)
7 - Texas, UIUC, Florida, the rest ofthe UCs, the best ones in Australia (Melbourne, ANU, UNSW, Sydney)
8 - The top 4 in China (Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan and Xiamen), Purdue, Rutgers and the like, the best ones in India (IIT and IIM?)
9 - Seoul National, National U of Singapore, U of HK</p>