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 | ↑ | University of Texas at Austin |  | USA |
| 6 | 6 | ↑ | University of California, Santa Barbara |  | USA |
| 7 | 7 | ↔ | University of Michigan Ann Arbor |  | USA |
| 8 | 8 | ↓ | Georgia Institute Technology |  | USA |
| 9 | 9 | ↓ | Carnegie Mellon University |  | USA |
| 10 | 10 | ↑ | Purdue University |  | USA |
| 11 | 12 | ↓ | University of California, San Diego |  | USA |
| 12 | 13 | ↑ | University of Toronto |  | Canada |
| 13 | 14 | ↓ | University Maryland, College Park |  | USA |
| 14 | 15 | ↔ | University of Cambridge |  | UK |
| 15 | 16 | ↓ | Northwestern University |  | USA |
| 16 | 17 | ↓ | University of Southern California |  | USA |
| 17 | 18 | ↑ | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL |  | Switzerland |
| 18 | 19 | ↔ | California Institute of Technology, Caltech |  | USA |
| 19 | 20 | ↓ | Cornell University |  | USA |
| 20 | 21 | ↓ | Texas A&M University |  | USA |
| 21 | 22 | ↔ | Imperial College London |  | UK |
| 22 | 23 | ↑ | Tohoku University |  | Japan |
| 23 | 24 | ↓ | Princeton University |  | USA |
| 24 | 25 | ↑ | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |  | USA |
| 25 | 26 | ↑ | National Taiwan University |  | Taiwan |
| 26 | 28 | ↓ | University of California, Los Angeles |  | USA |
| 27 | 29 | ↑ | North Carolina State University |  | USA |
| 28 | 30 | ↑ | University of Washington |  | USA |
| 29 | 31 | ↓ | University of Wisconsin Madison |  | USA |
| 30 | 32 | ↑ | City University of Hong Kong |  | Hong Kong |
| 31 | 33 | ↓ | University of Pennsylvania |  | USA |
| 32 | 34 | ↑ | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |  | USA |
| 33 | 35 | ↔ | Kyoto University |  | Japan |
| 34 | 36 | ↓ | University of Manchester |  | UK |
| 35 | 37 | ↑ | Harvard University |  | USA |
| 36 | 38 | ↓ | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |  | Hong Kong |
| 37 | 39 | ↑ | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETHZ |  | Switzerland |
| 38 | 39 | ↑ | Tsinghua University |  | China |
| 39 | 41 | ↓ | Tokyo Institute Technology |  | Japan |
| 40 | 42 | ↔ | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |  | Israel |
| 41 | 43 | ↑ | University of Waterloo |  | Canada |
| 42 | 44 | ↑ | University of Oxford |  | UK |
| 43 | 45 | ↑ | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |  | South Korea |
| 44 | 46 | ↑ | University of California, Irvine |  | USA |
| 45 | 47 | ↓ | National Cheng Kung University |  | Taiwan |
| 46 | 48 | ↓ | University of Florida |  | USA |
| 47 | 49 | ↔ | Columbia University |  | USA |
| 48 | 50 | ↓ | National Chiao Tung University |  | Taiwan |
| 49 | 51-75 | ↔ | Arizona State University |  | USA |
| 50 | 51-75 | ↔ | Catholic University of Leuven |  | Belgium |