| Rank | University | Country | City |
| 1 | Harvard University | USA | Cambridge |
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | USA | Philadelphia |
| 3 | Stanford University | USA | Stanford |
| 4 | Oxford University | UK | Oxford |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley | USA | Berkeley |
| 6 | University of Texas | USA | Austin |
| 7 | Cornell University | USA | Ithaca |
| 8 | Princeton University | USA | Princeton |
| 9 | Yale University | USA | New Haven |
| 10 | University of Michigan | USA | Ann Arbor |
| 11 | Cambridge University | UK | Cambridge |
| 12 | University of London | UK | London |
| 13 | California State University | USA | Los Angeles |
| 14 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | Palaiseau |
| 15 | New York University | USA | New York |
| 16 | Columbia University | USA | New York |
| 17 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | Boston |
| 18 | Southern California University | USA | Los Angeles |
| 19 | Dartmouth College | USA | Hanover |
| 20 | University of Wisconsin | USA | Madison |
| 21 | University of Illinois | USA | Champaign |
| 22 | University of Virginia | USA | Charlottesville |
| 23 | Sciences Po | France | Paris |
| 24 | University of New South Wales | Australia | Sydney |
| 25 | Brown University | USA | Providence |
| 26 | Georgetown University | USA | Washington |
| 27 | Duke University | USA | Durham |
| 28 | Boston University | USA | Boston |
| 29 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | Tel Aviv-Yafo |
| 30 | Bocconi University | Italy | Milan |
| 31 | London School of Economics | UK | London |
| 32 | Sydney University | Australia | Sydney |
| 33 | Miami University | USA | Oxford (Ohio) |
| 34 | University of Toronto | Canada | Toronto |
| 35 | Northwestern University | USA | Chicago |
| 36 | Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) | Mexico | Monterrey |
| 37 | Manchester University | UK | Manchester |
| 38 | University of Notre Dame | USA | Indiana |
| 39 | North Carolina University | USA | Chapel Hill |
| 40 | Boston College | USA | Boston |
| 41 | McGill University | Canada | Montreal |
| 42 | Purdue University | USA | West Lafayette |
| 43 | Indiana University Bloomington | USA | Bloomington |
| 44 | University of Florida | USA | Gainesville |
| 45 | Monash University | Australia | Melbourne |
| 46 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Singapore |
| 47 | Trinity College | Ireland | Dublin |
| 48 | Texas A&M University | USA | College Station |
| 49 | University of Melbourne | Australia | Melbourne |
| 50 | Imperial College | UK | London |