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-Universität München | Germany | 92.2 | 77.2 | 95.3 | 86.7 | 88.7 |
14 | 15= | Technische Universität München | 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 Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 85.8 | 88.8 | 86.5 | 81.1 | 85.6 |
17 | 20 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 84.5 | 77.3 | 92.6 | 88.7 | 85.5 |
18 | 21 | Kyoto University | Japan | 85.7 | 88.7 | 80.3 | 85.3 | 85.1 |
19 | 14 | Columbia University | United States | 77.4 | 82.7 | 97.1 | 90.3 | 85 |
20 | 17 | Yale University | United States | 82.8 | 75.5 | 94 | 89.3 | 84.9 |
21 | 15= | Cornell University | United States | 83.8 | 74.3 | 92.2 | 86.9 | 84.2 |
22 | 23 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 81.7 | 76.6 | 88.7 | 88 | 83.3 |
23 | 42= | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 83.6 | 81.4 | 85.5 | 81.8 | 83.2 |
24 | 46 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 82.6 | 78.2 | 89.9 | 82.2 | 83.1 |
25 | 28 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 80.5 | 77.4 | 90.4 | 85.1 | 82.8 |
25 | 22 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 84.7 | 68 | 90.2 | 86.3 | 82.8 |
27 | 27 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 83.4 | 74 | 88.8 | 83.5 | 82.6 |
28 | 24= | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Germany | 79.2 | 85 | 85 | 84.1 | 82.5 |
29 | 34 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 84.1 | 80.5 | 80.5 | 80.9 | 82 |
30 | 37= | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | 77 | 80.8 | 91 | 83.7 | 81.9 |
30 | 24= | University of Pisa | Italy | 77.2 | 76.4 | 94.8 | 83.9 | 81.9 |
32 | 35 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 79.1 | 79.9 | 88.2 | 82.9 | 81.8 |
32 | 26 | University of Michigan | United States | 74.2 | 82.7 | 88.5 | 89.3 | 81.8 |
34 | 51-100 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 74.9 | 75.1 | 91 | 92.1 | 81.6 |
34 | 51-100 | University of Toronto | Canada | 77.9 | 80.4 | 88.1 | 83.5 | 81.6 |
36 | 49 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 76.6 | 93.5 | 77.7 | 83.3 | 81.5 |
37 | 30= | Tohoku University | Japan | 83.4 | 81.4 | 76.5 | 79.4 | 80.8 |
38 | 32 | Peking University | China | 80.3 | 80.7 | 80.7 | 80.4 | 80.5 |
38 | 37= | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 72.4 | 83.5 | 92 | 82.2 | 80.5 |
38 | 36 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 74.8 | 76.8 | 89.5 | 86.7 | 80.5 |
41 | 37= | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 81.1 | 81.1 | 81.3 | 76.9 | 80.3 |
41 | 48 | Tsinghua University | China | 78.8 | 84.9 | 76 | 82.9 | 80.3 |
43 | 51-100 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 79 | 84.8 | 80.4 | 76.9 | 80 |
44 | 40 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 75.4 | 69.6 | 94.2 | 84.3 | 79.8 |
45 | 51-100 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France | 87.1 | 70.7 | 85.3 | 67.6 | 79.6 |
45 | 30= | Osaka University | Japan | 81.5 | 79.1 | 75.8 | 79.9 | 79.6 |
45 | 33 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 74.2 | 77.4 | 92.9 | 79.4 | 79.6 |
45 | 29 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 75.6 | 73.5 | 88.5 | 84.9 | 79.6 |
49 | 45 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 74.4 | 76 | 91.9 | 80.9 | 79.5 |
50 | 51-100 | McGill University | Canada | 72.4 | 79.6 | 87.6 | 81.3 | 78.7 |
50 | 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 77 | 83 | 80.2 | 76.4 | 78.7 |
51-100 | 51-100 | Australian National University | Australia | 80.2 | 71.4 | 82.9 | 74.8 | |
51-100 | 41 | Boston University | United States | 67.6 | 71.5 | 98.7 | 85.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Brown University | United States | 62.5 | 77.1 | 100 | 78.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 67.2 | 79.9 | 95 | 79 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 80.8 | 80 | 76.5 | 69.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Duke University | United States | 60.9 | 71.6 | 93.6 | 82.9 | |
51-100 | 42= | Durham University | United Kingdom | 74.5 | 70.3 | 91.5 | 77.7 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 66.7 | 81.1 | 82.6 | 78 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 72.1 | 58.9 | 91.1 | 78.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 67.1 | 79.4 | 91.5 | 84.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | Korea, South | 78.6 | 82.5 | 76.7 | 69.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 71.2 | 82.5 | 76.4 | 68.6 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 74.7 | 74 | 82.6 | 77.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 78.2 | 64.1 | 84.9 | 73 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Lund University | Sweden | 71.2 | 64.3 | 87.8 | 76.4 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Nagoya University | Japan | 72.8 | 74.5 | 81.7 | 77.7 | |
51-100 | | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) | Russia | 64.9 | 81 | 92.9 | 76.4 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 61.6 | 72.2 | 95.8 | 80.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Northwestern University | United States | 69.4 | 65.6 | 89.9 | 84.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Ohio State University | United States | 63.1 | 74.4 | 95.3 | 92.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 67.4 | 75.9 | 84.9 | 83.5 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy | 69.3 | 88.8 | 76.8 | 69.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Purdue University | United States | 57.8 | 84.6 | 91.8 | 91.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Germany | 70.4 | 57.6 | 92.3 | 78.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Rice University | United States | 63.7 | 62.1 | 96.6 | 85.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | United States | 63 | 66.5 | 94.1 | 84.9 | |
51-100 | 151-200 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 64.5 | 66 | 93.6 | 82.6 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 67.4 | 74.6 | 83.5 | 76.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 75.2 | 76.6 | 82.6 | 65 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 71.5 | 66.8 | 91.4 | 82 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 70.7 | 58.9 | 93.8 | 76.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | Brazil | 74.4 | 74.7 | 78 | 80.6 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Padua | Italy | 68.5 | 64 | 89.3 | 85.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Università degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata | Italy | 68.1 | 69.5 | 88 | 80.4 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Bologna | Italy | 66.2 | 77.8 | 87.8 | 82.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona | Spain | 69.9 | 73.2 | 93 | 76.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Barcelona | Spain | 66.5 | 75.9 | 86 | 77.5 | |
51-100 | 50 | Universität Hamburg | Germany | 74.4 | 68.9 | 91.3 | 82 | |
51-100 | 44 | Université Paris-Sud 11 | France | 67.8 | 55.1 | 88.6 | 89.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France | 70.1 | 65.3 | 87.8 | 87.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 73.8 | 64.4 | 95.3 | 76.4 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 68.5 | 74.5 | 90.1 | 80.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States | 72.2 | 65.4 | 91.2 | 84.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 71.1 | 59.1 | 90.5 | 81.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 74.3 | 56.2 | 93.3 | 85.1 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 70.1 | 66.6 | 92.3 | 81.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 68.5 | 73.9 | 84.8 | 76.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Washington | United States | 70.7 | 54.3 | 94.2 | 89.4 | |
51-100 | 47 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 65.3 | 78.7 | 92.5 | 89.3 | |