| Rank |
School name |
| #1 |
California Institute of Technology |
| |
Pasadena, CA |
| #2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| |
Cambridge, MA |
| #3Tie |
Stanford University |
| |
Stanford, CA |
| #3Tie |
University of California—Berkeley |
| |
Berkeley, CA |
| #5 |
Columbia University |
| |
Palisades, NY |
| #6 |
Pennsylvania State University—University Park |
| |
University Park, PA |
| #7 |
University of Arizona |
| |
Tucson, AZ |
| #8Tie |
Harvard University |
| |
Cambridge, MA |
| #8Tie |
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor |
| |
Ann Arbor, MI |
| #8Tie |
University of Texas—Austin |
| |
Austin, TX |
| #11Tie |
Princeton University |
| |
Princeton, NJ |
| #11Tie |
University of Washington |
| |
Seattle, WA |
| #13Tie |
University of California—Los Angeles |
| |
Los Angeles, CA |
| #13Tie |
University of Wisconsin—Madison |
| |
Madison, WI |
| #13Tie |
Yale University |
| |
New Haven, CT |
| #16Tie |
Brown University |
| |
Providence, RI |
| #16Tie |
Cornell University |
| |
Ithaca, NY |
| #16Tie |
University of California—San Diego |
| |
La Jolla, CA |
| #16Tie |
University of California—Santa Cruz |
| |
Santa Cruz, CA |
| #20Tie |
Arizona State University |
| |
Tempe, AZ |
| #20Tie |
University of California—Davis |
| |
Davis, CA |
| #20Tie |
University of Chicago |
| |
Chicago, IL |
| #23Tie |
University of California—Santa Barbara |
| |
Santa Barbara, CA |
| #23Tie |
University of Colorado—Boulder |
| |
Boulder, CO |
| #25Tie |
Colorado School of Mines |
| |
Golden, CO |
| #25Tie |
Rice University |
| |
Houston, TX |
| #25Tie |
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities |
| |
Minneapolis, MN |
| #25Tie |
University of Southern California |
| |
Los Angeles, CA |
| #25Tie |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| |
St. Louis, MO |
| #30Tie |
Johns Hopkins University |
| |
Baltimore, MD |
| #30Tie |
Virginia Tech |
| |
Blacksburg, VA |
| #32Tie |
Texas A&M University—College Station |
| |
College Station, TX |
| #32Tie |
University of Maryland—College Park |
| |
College Park, MD |
| #34Tie |
Northwestern University |
| |
Evanston, IL |
| #34Tie |
Ohio State University |
| |
Columbus, OH |
| #34Tie |
Oregon State University |
| |
Corvallis, OR |
| #34Tie |
Stony Brook University—SUNY |
| |
Stony Brook, NY |
| #34Tie |
University of California—Irvine |
| |
Irvine, CA |
| #34Tie |
University of Hawaii—Manoa |
| |
Honolulu, HI |
| #34Tie |
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign |
| |
Urbana, IL |
| #34Tie |
University of Oregon |
| |
Eugene, OR |
| #42Tie |
Duke University |
| |
Durham, NC |
| #42Tie |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| |
Atlanta, GA |
| #42Tie |
Indiana University—Bloomington |
| |
Bloomington, IN |
| #42Tie |
Purdue University—West Lafayette |
| |
West Lafayette, IN |
| #42Tie |
University of Miami |
| |
Coral Gables, FL |
| #42Tie |
University of Utah |
| |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| #42Tie |
University of Wyoming |
| |
Laramie, WY |
| #49Tie |
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| |
Socorro, NM |
| #49Tie |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark |
| |
Newark, NJ |
| #49Tie |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick |
| |
Piscataway, NJ |
| #49Tie |
University of Massachusetts—Amherst |
| |
Amherst, MA |
| #49Tie |
University of New Mexico |
| |
Albuquerque, NM |