- 1 Harvard University
- 2 Stanford University
- 3 University of California - Berkeley
- 4 University of Cambridge
- 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 6 California Institute of Technology
- 7 Columbia University
- 8 Princeton University
- 9 University of Chicago
- 10 University of Oxford
- 11 Yale University
- 12 Cornell University
- 13 University of California - Los Angeles
- 14 University of California - San Diego
- 15 University of Pennsylvania
- 16 University of Washington - Seattle
- 17 University of Wisconsin - Madison
- 18 University of California - San Francisco
- 19 Tokyo University
- 20 Johns Hopkins University
- 21 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- 22 University College London
- 23 Kyoto University
- 24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich
- 24 University of Toronto
- 26 University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
- 27 Imperial College London
- 28 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- 29 Washington University - St. Louis
- 30 Northwestern University
- 31 New York University
- 32 Duke University
- 32 Rockefeller University
- 34 University of Colorado - Boulder
- 35 University of British Columbia
- 36 University of California - Santa Barbara
- 37 University of Maryland - Coll Park
- 38 University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- 39 University of Texas - Austin
- 40 University of Manchester
- 41 University of Texas Southwestern Med Center
- 42 Pennsylvania State University - University Park
- 42 Université Paris 06
- 42 Vanderbilt University
- 45 University of Copenhagen
- 46 University of California - Irvine
- 47 University of Utrecht
- 48 University of California - Davis
- 49 Université Paris 11
- 50 University of Southern California
- 51 Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
- 52 University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
- 53 University of Zurich
- 54 Rutgers State University - New Brunswick
- 55 University of Edinburgh
- 55 University of Munich
- 57 Tech University Munich
- 58 University of Florida
- 59 Australian National University
- 60 McGill University
- 61 University of Bristol
- 62 Carnegie Mellon University
- 62 Ohio State University - Columbus
- 64 University of Oslo
- 65 Hebrew University Jerusalem
- 65 Purdue University - West Lafayette
- 67 University of Heidelberg
- 68 Osaka University
- 68 University of Helsinki
- 70 Moscow State Univ
- 71 Brown University
- 71 Uppsala University
- 73 Ecole Normale Super Paris
- 73 University of Melbourne
- 73 University of Rochester
Kilde: ARWU / Shanghai-rankingen.