Relative position
| World Rank
| | Institution
| | Country
| |
| 1 | 1 | ↔ | Harvard University |  | USA | |
| 2 | 2 | ↔ | Stanford University |  | USA | |
| 3 | 3 | ↔ | University of California, Berkeley |  | USA | |
| 4 | 5 | ↔ | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT |  | USA | |
| 5 | 6 | ↔ | California Institute of Technology, Caltech |  | USA | |
| 6 | 7 | ↔ | Columbia University |  | USA | |
| 7 | 8 | ↔ | Princeton University |  | USA | |
| 8 | 9 | ↔ | University of Chicago |  | USA | |
| 9 | 11 | ↔ | Yale University |  | USA | |
| 10 | 12 | ↔ | Cornell University |  | USA | |
| 11 | 13 | ↔ | University of California, Los Angeles |  | USA | |
| 12 | 14 | ↔ | University of California, San Diego |  | USA | |
| 13 | 15 | ↔ | University of Pennsylvania |  | USA | |
| 14 | 16 | ↔ | University of Washington |  | USA | |
| 15 | 17 | ↔ | University of Wisconsin, Madison |  | USA | |
| 16 | 18 | ↔ | University of California, San Francisco |  | USA | |
| 17 | 20 | ↓ | Johns Hopkins University |  | USA | |
| 18 | 21 | ↔ | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |  | USA | |
| 19 | 26 | ↔ | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |  | USA | |
| 20 | 28 | ↑ | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |  | USA | |
| 21 | 29 | ↓ | Washington University in St. Louis |  | USA | |
| 22 | 30 | ↓ | Northwestern University |  | USA | |
| 23 | 31 | ↓ | New York University |  | USA | |
| 24 | 32 | ↔ | Duke University |  | USA | |
| 25 | 32 | ↓ | Rockefeller University |  | USA | |
| 26 | 34 | ↔ | University of Colorado at Boulder |  | USA | |
| 27 | 36 | ↓ | University of California, Santa Barbara |  | USA | |
| 28 | 37 | ↔ | University Maryland, College Park |  | USA | |
| 29 | 38 | ↑ | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |  | USA | |
| 30 | 39 | ↓ | University of Texas, Austin |  | USA | |
| 31 | 41 | ↓ | University Texas Southwestern Medical Center |  | USA | |
| 32 | 42 | ↑ | Pennsylvania State University |  | USA | |
| 33 | 42 | ↓ | Vanderbilt University |  | USA | |
| 34 | 46 | ↓ | University of California, Irvine |  | USA | |
| 35 | 48 | ↓ | University of California, Davis |  | USA | |
| 36 | 50 | ↔ | University of Southern California |  | USA | |
| 37 | 52 | ↓ | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh |  | USA | |
| 38 | 54 | ↓ | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |  | USA | |
| 39 | 58 | ↓ | University of Florida |  | USA | |
| 40 | 62 | ↓ | Carnegie Mellon University |  | USA | |
| 41 | 62 | ↓ | Ohio State University |  | USA | |
| 42 | 65 | ↑ | Purdue University |  | USA | |
| 43 | 71 | ↓ | Brown University |  | USA | |
| 44 | 73 | ↑ | University of Rochester |  | USA | |
| 45 | 77 | ↓ | University of Arizona |  | USA | |
| 46 | 79 | ↑ | University of Utah |  | USA | |
| 47 | 83 | ↔ | Boston University |  | USA | |
| 48 | 83 | ↓ | Case Western Reserve University |  | USA | |
| 49 | 83 | ↓ | Michigan State University |  | USA | |
| 50 | 88 | ↑ | Texas A&M University |  | USA | |