| World Rank | Institution* | Region | Regional Rank | Country | National Rank | Total Score |
| 1 | Harvard Univ ( http://www.harvard.edu/ ) | Americas | 1 | USA | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Univ Cambridge ( http://www.cam.ac.uk/ ) | Europe | 1 | UK | 1 | 73.6 |
| 3 | Stanford Univ ( http://www.stanford.edu/ ) | Americas | 2 | USA | 2 | 73.4 |
| 4 | Univ California - Berkeley ( http://www.berkeley.edu/ ) | Americas | 3 | USA | 3 | 72.8 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) ( http://www.mit.edu/ ) | Americas | 4 | USA | 4 | 70.1 |
| 6 | California Inst Tech ( http://www.caltech.edu/ ) | Americas | 5 | USA | 5 | 67.1 |
| 7 | Columbia Univ ( http://www.columbia.edu/ ) | Americas | 6 | USA | 6 | 62.3 |
| 8 | Princeton Univ ( http://www.princeton.edu/ ) | Americas | 7 | USA | 7 | 60.9 |
| 9 | Univ Chicago ( http://www.uchicago.edu/ ) | Americas | 8 | USA | 8 | 60.1 |
| 10 | Univ Oxford ( http://www.ox.ac.uk/ ) | Europe | 2 | UK | 2 | 59.7 |
| 11 | Yale Univ ( http://www.yale.edu/ ) | Americas | 9 | USA | 9 | 56.9 |
| 12 | Cornell Univ ( http://www.cornell.edu/ ) | Americas | 10 | USA | 10 | 54.6 |
| 13 | Univ California - San Diego ( http://www.ucsd.edu/ ) | Americas | 11 | USA | 11 | 51 |
| 14 | Univ California - Los Angeles ( http://www.ucla.edu/ ) | Americas | 12 | USA | 12 | 50.6 |
| 15 | Univ Pennsylvania ( http://www.upenn.edu/ ) | Americas | 13 | USA | 13 | 50.2 |
| 16 | Univ Wisconsin - Madison ( http://www.wisc.edu/ ) | Americas | 14 | USA | 14 | 49.2 |
| 17 | Univ Washington - Seattle ( http://www.washington.edu/ ) | Americas | 15 | USA | 15 | 48.4 |
| 18 | Univ California - San Francisco ( http://www.ucsf.edu/ ) | Americas | 16 | USA | 16 | 47.8 |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins Univ ( http://www.jhu.edu/ ) | Americas | 17 | USA | 17 | 46.9 |
| 20 | Tokyo Univ ( http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/index.html ) | Asia/Pac | 1 | Japan | 1 | 46.7 |
