| Rank |
Item |
| 1 |
Harvard University |
| 2 |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 3 |
Stanford University |
| 4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 5 |
University of Cambridge |
| 6 |
California Institute of Technology |
| 7 |
Princeton University |
| 8 |
Columbia University |
| 9 |
University of Chicago |
| 10 |
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010 |
| 10 |
University of Oxford |
| 11 |
Yale University |
| 12 |
Cornell University |
| 13 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| 14 |
University of California, San Diego |
| 15 |
University of Pennsylvania |
| 16 |
University of Washington |
| 17 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 18 |
Johns Hopkins University |
| 18 |
University of California, San Francisco |
| 20 |
University of Tokyo |
| 21 |
University College London |
| 22 |
University of Michigan |
| 23 |
ETH Zurich |
| 24 |
Kyoto University |
| 25 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
