Relative position
| World Rank
| | Institution
| | Country
| |
| 1 | 1 | ↔ | Harvard University |  | USA | |
| 2 | 2 | ↔ | Stanford University |  | USA | |
| 3 | 3 | ↔ | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT |  | USA | |
| 4 | 4 | ↔ | University of California, Berkeley |  | USA | |
| 5 | 5 | ↔ | University of Cambridge |  | UK | |
| 6 | 6 | ↔ | California Institute of Technology, Caltech |  | USA | |
| 7 | 7 | ↔ | Princeton University |  | USA | |
| 8 | 8 | ↔ | Columbia University |  | USA | |
| 9 | 9 | ↔ | University of Chicago |  | USA | |
| 10 | 10 | ↔ | University of Oxford |  | UK | |
| 11 | 11 | ↔ | Yale University |  | USA | |
| 12 | 12 | ↔ | University of California, Los Angeles |  | USA | |
| 13 | 13 | ↔ | Cornell University |  | USA | |
| 14 | 14 | ↔ | University of Pennsylvania |  | USA | |
| 15 | 15 | ↔ | University of California, San Diego |  | USA | |
| 16 | 16 | ↔ | University of Washington |  | USA | |
| 17 | 17 | ↑ | Johns Hopkins University |  | USA | |
| 18 | 18 | ↓ | University of California, San Francisco |  | USA | |
| 19 | 19 | ↔ | University of Wisconsin Madison |  | USA | |
| 20 | 20 | ↑ | University of Tokyo |  | Japan | |
| 21 | 21 | ↓ | University College London |  | UK | |
| 22 | 22 | ↔ | University of Michigan Ann Arbor |  | USA | |
| 23 | 23 | ↔ | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETHZ |  | Switzerland | |
| 24 | 24 | ↔ | Imperial College London |  | UK | |
| 25 | 25 | ↔ | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |  | USA | |
| 26 | 26 | ↑ | Kyoto University |  | Japan | |
| 27 | 27= | ↑ | New York University |  | USA | |
| 28 | 27= | ↓ | University of Toronto |  | Canada | |
| 29 | 29 | ↓ | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |  | USA | |
| 30 | 30 | ↔ | Northwestern University |  | USA | |
| 31 | 31 | ↔ | Washington University in St. Louis |  | USA | |
| 32 | 32 | ↑ | Rockefeller University |  | USA | |
| 33 | 33 | ↓ | University of Colorado at Boulder |  | USA | |
| 34 | 34 | ↓ | University of California, Santa Barbara |  | USA | |
| 35 | 35 | ↔ | University of Texas at Austin |  | USA | |
| 36 | 36 | ↓ | Duke University |  | USA | |
| 37 | 37 | ↑ | Université Paris Sud (Paris XI) |  | France | |
| 38 | 38 | ↔ | University Maryland, College Park |  | USA | |
| 39 | 39 | ↓ | University of British Columbia |  | Canada | |
| 40 | 40 | ↓ | University of Manchester |  | UK | |
| 41 | 41 | ↑ | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |  | USA | |
| 42 | 42= | ↑ | Karolinska Institute |  | Sweden | |
| 43 | 42= | ↓ | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) |  | France | |
| 44 | 44 | ↓ | University of Copenhagen |  | Denmark | |
| 45 | 45 | ↑ | University of California, Irvine |  | USA | |
| 46 | 46 | ↔ | University of Southern California |  | USA | |
| 47 | 47 | ↑ | University of California, Davis |  | USA | |
| 48 | 48 | ↑ | University Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |  | USA | |
| 49 | 49 | ↓ | Pennsylvania State University |  | USA | |
| 50 | 50 | ↑ | Vanderbilt University |  | USA | |