Relative position
| World Rank
| | Institution
| | Country
|
| 1 | 1 | ↔ | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT |  | USA |
| 2 | 2 | ↔ | Stanford University |  | USA |
| 3 | 3 | ↔ | University of California, Berkeley |  | USA |
| 4 | 4 | ↔ | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |  | USA |
| 5 | 5 | ↔ | Georgia Institute Technology |  | USA |
| 6 | 6 | ↔ | University of Texas at Austin |  | USA |
| 7 | 7 | ↔ | University of Michigan – Ann Arbor |  | USA |
| 8 | 8 | ↔ | Carnegie Mellon University |  | USA |
| 9 | 9 | ↔ | Pennsylvania State University |  | USA |
| 10 | 10 | ↔ | University of California, San Diego |  | USA |
| 11 | 11 | ↑ | University Maryland, College Park |  | USA |
| 12 | 12= | ↔ | Northwestern University |  | USA |
| 13 | 12= | ↓ | University of Southern California |  | USA |
| 14 | 14 | ↓ | Purdue University |  | USA |
| 15 | 15= | ↑ | Texas A&M University |  | USA |
| 16 | 15= | ↔ | University of California, Santa Barbara |  | USA |
| 17 | 15= | ↑ | University of Cambridge |  | UK |
| 18 | 18 | ↓ | Cornell University |  | USA |
| 19 | 19 | ↓ | California Institute of Technology, Caltech |  | USA |
| 20 | 20 | ↔ | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL |  | Switzerland |
| 21 | 21 | ↓ | University of Toronto |  | Canada |
| 22 | 22 | ↑ | Imperial College London |  | UK |
| 23 | 23 | ↓ | Princeton University |  | USA |
| 24 | 24 | ↑ | Tohoku University |  | Japan |
| 25 | 25 | ↑ | Ohio State University |  | USA |
| 26 | 26 | ↑ | University of California, Los Angeles |  | USA |
| 27 | 27 | ↓ | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |  | USA |
| 28 | 28 | ↓ | University of Wisconsin – Madison |  | USA |
| 29 | 29 | ↑ | National Taiwan University |  | Taiwan |
| 30 | 30 | ↑ | North Carolina State University |  | USA |
| 31 | 31 | ↓ | University of Washington |  | USA |
| 32 | 32= | ↑ | University of Manchester |  | UK |
| 33 | 32= | ↑ | University of Pennsylvania |  | USA |
| 34 | 34 | ↔ | University of Florida |  | USA |
| 35 | 35 | ↓ | Kyoto University |  | Japan |
| 36 | 36= | ↑ | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |  | Hong Kong |
| 37 | 36= | ↑ | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |  | USA |
| 38 | 38 | ↑ | Harvard University |  | USA |
| 39 | 39 | ↓ | Tokyo Institute Technology |  | Japan |
| 40 | 40= | ↑ | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETHZ |  | Switzerland |
| 41 | 40= | ↑ | University of California, Davis |  | USA |
| 42 | 42= | ↑ | City University of Hong Kong |  | Hong Kong |
| 43 | 42= | ↓ | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |  | Israel |
| 44 | 44 | ↓ | National Cheng Kung University |  | Taiwan |
| 45 | 45 | ↔ | Tsinghua University |  | China |
| 46 | 46= | ↑ | National Chiao Tung University |  | Taiwan |
| 47 | 46= | ↑ | University of Oxford |  | UK |
| 48 | 48 | ↑ | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  | South Korea |
| 49 | 49 | ↓ | Columbia University |  | USA |
| 50 | 50= | ↑ | University of California, Irvine |  | USA |