| Rank | University |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 4 | University of California Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 6 | Yale University |
| 7 | Columbia University |
| 8 | Princeton University |
| 9 | New York University (NYU) |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 11 | University of Chicago |
| 12 | Cornell University |
| 13 | Duke University |
| 14 = | Johns Hopkins University |
| 14 = | University of Southern California |
| 16 | Northwestern University |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 18 | University of Michigan |
| 19 | Brown University |
| 20 | Boston University |
| 21 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 22 | Emory University |
| 23 | Rice University |
| 24 | University of Washington, Seattle |
| 25 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 26 | Georgetown University |
| 27 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 28 | Vanderbilt University |
| 29 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 30 = | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 30 = | University of Rochester |
| 32 = | Dartmouth College |
| 32 = | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 34 | University of California, Davis (UCD) |
| 35 | University of Florida |
| 36 = | Tufts University |
| 36 = | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) |
| 39 | Stony Brook University |
| 40 | University of Virginia |
| 41 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 42 | Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick |
| 43 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 44 | Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
| 45 = | George Washington University |
| 45 = | University of California, Irvine (UCI) |
| 47 | University of Notre Dame |
| 48 | University of Miami |
| 49 | Northeastern University |
| 50 = | Ohio State University, Columbus |
| 50 = | University at Buffalo SUNY |
