Higher education in the United Sates of America is highly developed, though the system of the education is not considered to be the best one in the world. However, it is very prestige to receive the higher education in the United States of America all around the world.
While speaking about the higher education in US, one can choose among private and public universities, among community colleges and liberal art colleges. Webometrics Ranking of World Universities Provides the following statistics: among the top 200 universities of the world, there are 103 universities of the United States of America.
The university system in US is considered to be decentralized. An independent Accreditation Organization was funded in the USA, which evaluates whether this or that university deserves to be accredited one or not. A lot of factors are taking into account at this point, for example the state of library, publishing record of the faculty, degrees which this or that faculty provides. When you receive a diploma in the accredited university, this diploma is considered to be a recognizable one, the situation is vice or versa in the non-accredited universities, it is better not to be involved into the education at such universities if you want to be employed after the graduation without any problems.