US Rankings as determined by THE:
| Rank 2018 | Previous year | Institution |
| =3 | 2 | California Institute of Technology |
| =3 | 3 | Stanford University |
| 5 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 6 | 6 | Harvard University |
| 7 | 7 | Princeton University |
| 9 | =10 | University of Chicago |
| =10 | 13 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 12 | 12 | Yale University |
| 13 | 17 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 14 | 16 | Columbia University |
| 15 | 14 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 17 | 18 | Duke University |
| 18 | =10 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 19 | 19 | Cornell University |
| 20 | 20 | Northwestern University |
| 21 | 21 | University of Michigan |
| 24 | 23 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| =25 | =25 | University of Washington |
| =27 | 32 | New York University |
| 31 | 41 | University of California, San Diego |
| 33 | =33 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 37 | =36 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 43 | 45 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 49 | 50 | University of Texas at Austin |
| =50 | =51 | Brown University |
| =50 | =57 | Washington University in St Louis |
| 53 | 48 | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| =54 | =51 | University of California, Davis |
| =56 | 53 | University of Minnesota |
| =56 | 56 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 60 | 70 | Purdue University |
| 66 | =60 | University of Southern California |
| 69 | 67 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| =70 | 64 | Boston University |
| =70 | =72 | Ohio State University |
| 77 | 68 | Pennsylvania State University |
| =83 | 101 | Michigan State University |
| =86 | 87 | Rice University |
| 89 | =82 | Dartmouth College |
| 98 | =82 | Emory University |
| 99 | =98 | University of California, Irvine |
| =100 | =116 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| =100 | =80 | University of Pittsburgh |
| =105 | 108 | Vanderbilt University |
| =113 | =121 | University of Virginia |
| =117 | 150 | Indiana University |
| =123 | =104 | Georgetown University |
| =126 | 131 | Arizona State University |
| =143 | 134 | University of Florida |
| =150 | 143 | University of Notre Dame |
| =153 | =151 | University of Rochester |
| 158 | =126 | Case Western Reserve University |
| =159 | 169 | Texas A&M University |
| 161 | =156 | University of Arizona |
| =162 | 146 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 168 | NR | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| =169 | =135 | Tufts University |
| 172 | 141 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| 186 | =182 | University of Miami |
| 191 | =165 | University of Massachusetts |
| 193 | =182 | Northeastern University |
| =198 | =165 | University of California, Riverside |
For the full rankings, including the top 200 universities around the world, as well as more full methodology, click here.
Material from a press release was used in this report.
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