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Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
100
96.4
92.1
98.5
97.4
2
2
Harvard University
United States
98.3
94
92.3
95.6
95.7
2
3
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
98.9
100
89.2
91.5
95.7
4
4
Stanford University
United States
94.6
94.2
94.8
100
95.6
5
5
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
97.3
90.7
92.9
95.2
94.7
6
6
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
95.9
96.9
90.8
90.8
94.1
7
7
Princeton University
United States
93.2
90
94.5
92.6
92.7
8
8
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States
95.7
78.4
90.1
94.9
91
9
11
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Switzerland
92
92.8
89.2
85.7
90.3
10
10
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
90.4
91.8
88.6
88.9
90
11
9
The University of Tokyo
Japan
91.5
89.7
83.7
92
89.7
12
12
University of Chicago
United States
90.4
78.9
99
88.2
89.4
13
13
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä,t Mü,nchen
Germany
92.2
77.2
95.3
86.7
88.7
14
15=
Technische Universitä,t Mü,nchen
Germany
86.6
92.7
84.7
82.2
86.6
15
18
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States
91.4
57.9
96.9
91.8
85.9
16
19
Ecole Polytechnique Fé,dé,rale de Lausanne