| World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 6 | Princeton University | United States |
| 7 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Columbia University | United States |
| 9 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 12 | Cornell University | United States |
| 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 14 | University of Washington | United States |
| 15 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 17 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 19 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 20 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 21 | University of California, San Francisco | United States |
| 22 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 23 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | mperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 26 | Duke University | United States |
| 27 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 28 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States |
| 29 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 30 | Rockefeller University | United States |
| 30 | niversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 32 | New York University | United States |
| 32 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 34 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 35 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 36 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 37 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States |
| 38 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 38 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States |
| 40 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 41 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 42 | University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) | France |
| 43 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 44 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 45 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 46 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 47 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 48 | Technical University Munich | Germany |
| 48 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | United States |
| 50 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 51 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 51 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 53 | University of Munich | Germany |
| 54 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 55 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 56 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 57 | Peking University | China |
| 57 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 59 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 60 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 61 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 62 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 63 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 64 | Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris | France |
| 65 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 66 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 67 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 68 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 69 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 70 | Boston University | United States |
| 70 | McGill University | Canada |
| 70 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States |
| 70 | Rice University | United States |
| 74 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 74 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States |
| 74 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 77 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 77 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| 79 | Era**us University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 79 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 81 | Mayo Medical School | United States |
| 81 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 83 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 83 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 85 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 86 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 86 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 86 | Moscow State University | Russia |
| 86 | University of Florida | United States |
| 90 | University of Pitt**urgh, Pitt**urgh Campus | United States |
| 91 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 91 | Monash University | Australia |
| 93 | The University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 94 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States |
| 95 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 96 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 96 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 96 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 99 | University of Goettingen | Germany |
| 100 | The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | United States |