



| UNIVERSITY | LOCATION | EMPLOYERS | US NEWS | QS | THE | ARWU |
| Harvard University | USA | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Stanford University | USA | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| University of Cambridge | UK | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| University of Oxford | UK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| California Institute of Technology | USA | 2 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| Yale University | USA | 7 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 11 |
| Princeton University | USA | 10 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 6 |
| Columbia University | USA | 16 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 8 |
| Johns Hopkins University | USA | 14 | 9 | 25 | 13 | 16 |
| University of Chicago | USA | 33 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 11 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 21 |
| University of California, Berkeley | USA | 32 | 4 | 32 | 8 | 5 |
| Imperial College London | UK | 18 | 20 | 7 | 12 | 25 |
| University of Toronto | Canada | 12 | 16 | 26 | 18 | 22 |
| Tsinghua University | China | 37 | 26 | 17 | 16 | 28 |
| Peking University | China | 15 | 45 | 18 | 16 | 45 |
| New York University | USA | 17 | 30 | 42 | 26 | 27 |
| National University of Singapore | Singapore | 9 | 29 | 11 | 21 | 75 |
| Cornell University | USA | 70 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 12 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | USA | 65 | 14 | 40 | 20 | 14 |
| University of Pennsylvania | USA | 101 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 |
| Duke University | USA | 34 | 23 | 52 | 23 | 32 |
| University of Tokyo | Japan | 6 | 77 | 23 | 35 | 24 |
| University of Melbourne | Australia | 52 | 25 | 37 | 33 | 33 |
| University College London | UK | 125 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 17 |
| University of British Columbia | Canada | 26 | 35 | 46 | 37 | 42 |
| Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 28 | 33 | 12 | 46 | 81 |
| McGill University | Canada | 29 | 51 | 27 | 44 | 67 |
| Technical University of Munich | Germany | 13 | 74 | 50 | 38 | 52 |
| University of Manchester | UK | 59 | 58 | 27 | 50 | 35 |
| Australian National University | Australia | 20 | 56 | 27 | 54 | 76 |
| University of Edinburgh | UK | 120 | 32 | 16 | 30 | 38 |
| École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 21 | 70 | 14 | 40 | 91 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | USA | 146 | 19 | 23 | 24 | 26 |
| University of Munich | Germany | 50 | 46 | 64 | 32 | 48 |
| Northwestern University | USA | 134 | 24 | 30 | 24 | 34 |
| University of Sydney | Australia | 54 | 28 | 38 | 58 | 69 |
| Heidelberg University | Germany | 46 | 54 | 63 | 42 | 57 |
| King's College London | UK | 114 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 47 |
| University of Queensland | Australia | 98 | 36 | 47 | 54 | 51 |
| Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 106 | 48 | - | 39 | 42 |
| Sorbonne University | France | 55 | 46 | 72 | 88 | 35 |
| University of Hong Kong | HK | 45 | 76 | 22 | 30 | 101-150 |
| KU Leuven | Belgium | 53 | 48 | 70 | 42 | 87 |
| Kyoto University | Japan | 43 | 127 | 33 | 61 | 37 |
| University of California, San Diego | USA | 193 | 21 | 48 | 34 | 18 |
| The University of New South Wales | Australia | 100 | 41 | 43 | 70 | 65 |
| University of Texas-Austin | USA | 122 | 43 | 67 | 47 | 41 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | USA | 48 | 102 | 53 | 28 | 97 |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 31 | 105 | 50 | 84 | 59 |
| University of Zurich | Switzerland | 72 | 64 | 70 | 75 | 54 |
| Monash University | Australia | 110 | 40 | 58 | 57 | 80 |
| Fudan University | China | 56 | 141 | 31 | 60 | 77 |
| University of Paris-Saclay | France | 89 | 60 | 86 | 117 | 13 |
| Boston University | USA | 36 | 65 | 112 | 62 | 95 |
| Utrecht University | Netherlands | 99 | 48 | 110 | 69 | 50 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | USA | 63 | 58 | 88 | 45 | 101-150 |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong | HK | 92 | 82 | 39 | 49 | 101-150 |
| Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 42 | 78 | 128 | 74 | - |