| LIST | UNIVERSITY | LOCATION | US NEWS | QS | THE | ARWU |
| 1 | University of Oxford | UK | 8 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2 | 5 | 9 | 5 |
| 3 | Imperial College London | UK | 14 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | UK | 24 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | University of Toronto | Canada | 5 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | Stanford University | USA | 4 | 3 | 6 | 24 |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA | 10 | 6 | 16 | 11 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania | USA | 7 | 15 | 18 | 4 |
| 9 | University College London | UK | 15 | 7 | 8 | 17 |
| 10 | University of Washington | USA | 6 | 19 | 21 | 10 |
| 11 | Columbia University | USA | 10 | 14 | 11 | 28 |
| 11 | Yale University | USA | 13 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 13 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 34 | 20 | 14 | 14 |
| 14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | USA | 18 | 12 | 25 | 35 |
| 15 | University of California, San Diego | USA | 18 | 22 | 31 | 50 |
| 16 | Washington University in St. Louis | USA | 18 | 40 | 27 | 38 |
| 17 | Emory University | USA | 21 | 56 | 42 | 12 |
| 18 | Northwestern University | USA | 21 | 46 | 34 | 40 |
| 19 | University of Edinburgh | UK | 52 | 25 | 28 | 48 |
| 20 | McGill University | Canada | 40 | 22 | 29 | 51-75 |
| 21 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 33 | 27 | 40 | 51-75 |
| 22 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | USA | 28 | - | 36 | 51-75 |
| 23 | Monash University | Australia | 58 | 38 | 34 | 51-75 |
| 24 | New York University | USA | 37 | 33 | 41 | 76-100 |
| 25 | University of Glasgow | UK | 55 | 54 | 49 | 49 |
| 26 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 56 | 21 | 21 | 101-150 |
| 27 | Boston University | USA | 51 | 57 | 45 | 76-100 |