Original sentence: After high school, students have a choice of attending either a public/state university or a private university.American colleges and universities range from highly competitive schools, such as Harvard University, to hundreds of local community colleges with open admission policies.For a complete list, see Colleges & Universities in the United States
Edited sentence: Institutions of higher education in the United States range from the renowned Harvard University to the hundreds of local community colleges, where any person can get a post-secondary education.Students have a choice of attending a public/state university or private university.There are many top-ranking universities in the United States such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Northwestern University, University of Texas at Austin, Johns Hopkins, and Duke, among others