| Rank |
School name |
| #1 |
California Institute of Technology |
| #2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| #2 |
Stanford University |
| #2 |
University of California--Berkeley |
| #5 |
Columbia University |
| #5 |
Pennsylvania State University--University Park |
| #7 |
University of Texas--Austin |
| #8 |
Harvard University |
| #8 |
University of Arizona |
| #10 |
Princeton University |
| #10 |
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor |
| #10 |
University of Washington |
| #13 |
University of California--Los Angeles |
| #13 |
Yale University |
| #15 |
Arizona State University |
| #15 |
Brown University |
| #15 |
University of California--San Diego |
| #15 |
University of Wisconsin--Madison |
| #19 |
Cornell University |
| #19 |
University of California--Santa Barbara |
| #19 |
University of California--Santa Cruz |
| #19 |
University of Chicago |
| #19 |
University of Colorado--Boulder |
| #24 |
Rice University |
| #24 |
University of California--Davis |
| #24 |
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities |
| #27 |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| #28 |
Colorado School of Mines |
| #28 |
University of Maryland--College Park |
| #28 |
Virginia Tech |
| #31 |
Johns Hopkins University |
| #31 |
Northwestern University |
| #31 |
Oregon State University |
| #31 |
Texas A&M University--College Station |
| #31 |
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign |
| #31 |
University of Oregon |
| #31 |
University of Southern California |
| #38 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| #38 |
Ohio State University |
| #38 |
Stony Brook University--SUNY |
| #41 |
Indiana University--Bloomington |
| #41 |
Purdue University--West Lafayette |
| #41 |
University of California--Irvine |
| #41 |
University of Hawaii--Manoa |
| #41 |
University of Utah |
| #46 |
Duke University |
| #46 |
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| #46 |
University of California--Riverside |
| #46 |
University of Massachusetts--Amherst |
| #46 |
University of New Mexico |
| #46 |
University of Wyoming |