2012-13 Rank Institution Name 1 California Institute of Technology 2 University of Oxford 2 Stanford University 4 Harvard University 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 Princeton University 7 University of Cambridge 8 Imperial College London 9 University of California, Berkeley 10 University of Chicago 11 Yale University 12 ETH Zürich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 13 University of California, Los Angeles 14 Columbia University 15 University of Pennsylvania 16 Johns Hopkins University 17 University College London 18 Cornell University 19 Northwestern University 20 University of Michigan 21 University of Toronto 22 Carnegie Mellon University 23 Duke University 24 University of Washington 25 Georgia Institute of Technology 25 University of Texas at Austin 27 University of Tokyo 28 University of Melbourne 29 National University of Singapore 30 University of British Columbia 31 University of Wisconsin Madison 32 University of Edinburgh 33 University of Illinois - Urbana 34 McGill University 35 University of Hong Kong 35 University of California, Santa Barbara 37 Australian National University 38 University of California, San Diego 39 London School of Economics and Political Science 40 École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne 41 New York University 42 Karolinska Institute
42 University of North Carolina 44 University of California, Davis 44 Washington University in Saint Louis 46 Peking University 47 University of Minnesota 48 University of Munich 49 University of Manchester 50 Pohang University of Science and Technology 51 Brown University 52 Tsinghua University 53 Ohio State University 54 Boston University 54 Kyoto University 56 University of Southern California 57 King's College London 58 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 59 École Normale Supérieure, Paris 59 Seoul National University 61 Pennsylvania State University 62 École Polytechnique 62 University of Sydney 64 Leiden University 65 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 65 University of Queensland, Australia 67 Utrecht University 68 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 69 Purdue University 70 University of Göttingen 70 Wageningen University and Research Center 72 Erasmus University Rotterdam 72 University of Massachusetts 74 University of Bristol 75 Rice University 76 University of Pittsburgh 77 Delft University of Technology 78 Universität Heidelberg 79 Emory University 80 Durham University 81 Université Pierre et Marie Curie 82 Lund University 83 University of Amsterdam 84 University of Montreal 85 University of New South Wales
86 Nanyang Technological University 87 Tufts University 88 McMaster University 89 University of Groningen 89 University of Zurich 91 University of Colorado 92 Université Paris-Sud 93 Ghent University 94 Michigan State University 94 University of Notre Dame 96 University of California, Irvine 97 University of Maryland College Park 98 University of Arizona 99 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 99 Monash University 99 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 102 University of Rochester 103 University of York 104 Case Western Reserve University 105 Technische Universität München 106 Uppsala University 106 Vanderbilt University 108 University of St. Andrews 109 University of Helsinki 110 University of Sheffield 110 University of Sussex 110 Trinity College Dublin 113 University of Cape Town 114 Eindhoven University of Technology 115 Maastricht University 116 Aarhus University 117 Stockholm University 118 University of Virginia 119 Royal Holloway, University of London 120 University of Nottingham 121 University of Alberta 122 University of California, Santa Cruz 122 University of Florida 124 Chinese University Hong Kong 124 Dartmouth College 124 University of Warwick 127 Radboud University Nijmegen 128 Freie Universität Berlin
128 Tokyo Institute of Technology 130 University of Copenhagen 130 University of Lausanne 130 University of Southampton 133 University of Geneva 134 Indiana University 134 National Taiwan University 134 University of Utah 137 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 137 Tohoku University 139 University of Glasgow 140 Royal Institute of Technology 140 VU University Amsterdam 142 University of Basel 142 University of Leeds 144 University of Freiburg 145 Lancaster University 145 Queen Mary, University of London 147 Osaka University 148 Arizona State University 149 Technical University of Denmark 150 Boston College 151 University of Bern 151 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 153 University of Exeter 154 University of California, Riverside 154 RWTH Aachen University 156 Texas A&M University 156 Yeshiva University 158 University of Birmingham 158 University of São Paulo 158 Tel Aviv University 161 University of Auckland 162 Stony Brook University 162 University of Vienna 164 Université Catholique de Louvain 165 University of Delaware 166 Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 167 University of Texas at Dallas 168 George Washington University 169 University of Iowa 170 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 171 Universität Bonn
171 University of Liverpool 171 University of Ottawa 174 Georgetown University 174 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 176 University of Aberdeen 176 University of Adelaide 176 University of East Anglia 176 University of Reading 180 Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 180 Newcastle University 182 City University Hong Kong 183 Yonsei University 184 Colorado School of Mines 184 University of Illinois - Chicago 184 William & Mary 187 University College Dublin 187 University of Twente 189 Medical University of South Carolina 190 Wake Forest University 190 University of Western Australia 192 University of Antwerp 193 Iowa State University 193 University of Miami 193 Technion Israel Institute of Technology 196 University of Leicester 196 University of Victoria 198 State University of New York Buffalo 199 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main 200 Birkbeck, University of London
Country 2011-12 Rank United States 1 United Kingdom 4 United States 2 United States 2 United States 7 United States 5 United Kingdom 6 United Kingdom 8 United States 10 United States 9 United States 11 Switzerland 15 United States 13 United States 12 United States 16 United States 14 United Kingdom 17 United States 20 United States 26 United States 18 Canada 19 United States 21 United States 22 United States 25 United States 24 United States 29 Japan 30 Australia 37 Singapore 40 Canada 22 United States 27 United Kingdom 36 United States 31 Canada 28 Hong Kong 34 United States 35 Australia 38 United States 33 United Kingdom 47 Switzerland 46 United States 44 Sweden 32
United States 43 United States 38 United States 41 China 49 United States 42 Germany 45 United Kingdom 48 Korea, Republic of 53 United States 49 China 71 United States 57 United States 54 Japan 52 United States 55 United Kingdom 56 Belgium 67 France 59 Korea, Republic of 124 United States 51 France 63 Australia 58 Netherlands 79 Hong Kong 62 Australia 74 Netherlands 68 Korea, Republic of 94 United States 98 Germany 69 Netherlands 75 Netherlands 157 United States 64 United Kingdom 66 United States 72 United States 59 Netherlands 104 Germany 73 United States 75 United Kingdom 83 France 84 Sweden 80 Netherlands 92 Canada 104 Australia 173
Singapore 169 United States 77 Canada 65 Netherlands 134 Switzerland 61 United States 77 France Not ranked Belgium 106 United States 96 United States 89 United States 86 United States 94 United States 97 Germany 109 Australia 117 United States 81 United States 81 United Kingdom 121 United States 93 Germany 88 Sweden 87 United States 70 United Kingdom 85 Finland 91 United Kingdom 101 United Kingdom 99 Ireland, Republic of 117 South Africa 103 Netherlands 115 Netherlands 197 Denmark 125 Sweden 131 United States 135 United Kingdom 107 United Kingdom 140 Canada 100 United States 110 United States 125 Hong Kong 151 United States 90 United Kingdom 157 Netherlands 159 Germany 151
Japan 108 Denmark 135 Switzerland 116 United Kingdom 127 Switzerland 130 United States 123 Taiwan 154 United States 113 Israel 121 Japan 120 United Kingdom 102 Sweden 187 Netherlands 159 Switzerland 111 United Kingdom 133 Germany 189 United Kingdom 131 United Kingdom 127 Japan 119 United States 127 Denmark 178 United States 195 Switzerland 112 Germany 196 United Kingdom 156 United States 143 Germany 168 United States 164 United States 154 United Kingdom 148 Brazil 178 Israel 166 New Zealand 173 United States 114 Austria 139 Belgium 169 United States 180 France 169 United States 251-275 United States 135 United States 141 France 141 Germany Not ranked
United Kingdom 181 Canada 185 United States 138 United States 144 United Kingdom 151 Australia 201-225 United Kingdom 145 United Kingdom 164 France Not ranked United Kingdom 146 Hong Kong 193 Korea, Republic of 226-250 United States 201-225 United States 167 United States 146 Ireland, Republic of 159 Netherlands 200 United States 162 United States 162 Australia 189 Belgium 276-300 United States 184 United States 172 Israel 201-225 United Kingdom 197 Canada 177 United States 201-225 Germany 181 United Kingdom 149