| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | 1861 | 11,574 |
| 2 | Stanford University | USA | 1885 | 17,534 |
| 3 | Harvard University | USA | 1636 | 30,391 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | UK | 1209 | 24,450 |
| 5 | University of Oxford | UK | 1096 | 26,415 |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology | USA | 1891 | 2,397 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 1855 | 24,453 |
| 8 | University of Chicago | USA | 1890 | 17,834 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | UK | 1907 | 22,035 |
| 10 | Tsinghua University | China | 1911 | 59,562 |
| 11 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 1905 | 43,600 |
| 12 | University of Toronto | Canada | 1827 | 95,055 |
| 13 | Princeton University | USA | 1746 | 8,623 |
| 14 | Yale University | USA | 1701 | 14,776 |
| 15 | Peking University | China | 1898 | 47,970 |
| 16 | University of Tokyo | Japan | 1877 | 28,753 |
| 17 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 1853 | 52,000 |
| 18 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 1868 | 50,484 |
| 19 | Sorbonne University | France | 1257 | 55,000 |
| 20 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 1946 | 28,378 |