- 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
- 17. University of Wisconsin - Madison
- 18. University of California, San Francisco
- 19. The Johns Hopkins University
- 20. University of Tokyo
- 21. University College London
- 22. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 23. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
- 24. Kyoto University
- 25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
- 26. Imperial College
- 27. University of Toronto
- 28. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- 29. Washington University in St. Louis
- 30. Northwestern University
- 31. Duke University
- 32. New York University
- 33. Rockefeller University
- 34. University of Colorado At Boulder
- 35. University of California, Santa Barbara
- 36. University of British Columbia
- 37. University of Maryland, College Park
- 38. University of Texas at Austin
- 39. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 40. Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
- 41. University of Manchester
- 41. Vanderbilt University
- 43. University of Copenhagen
- 43. University of Paris Sud
- 45. Pennsylvania State University - University Park
- 46. University of California, Irvine
- 46. University of Southern California
- 48. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas
- 49. University of California, Davis
- 50. Karolinska Institutet
- 50. University of Pittsburgh
Kilde: Arwu /Shanghai Jiao Tong University.