Massachusetts Institute of Technology (global ranking 1), Stanford University (global ranking 2), Harvard University (global ranking 3), California Institute of Technology (global ranking 4), University of Chicago (global ranking 9), Princeton University (global ranking 12), University of Pennsylvania (global ranking 16

Northwestern University (29th in the world), University of California, Berkeley (30th in the world), new york University (35th in the world), UCLA (36th in the world), Duke University (42nd in the world), Carnegie Mellon University (5 1 in the world), University of California, San Diego (54th in the world) and Brown University (54th in the world).

University of Wisconsin-Madison (ranked 65th in the world), University of Texas at Austin (ranked 7 1 in the world), University of Washington (ranked 72nd in the world), Georgia Institute of Technology (ranked 80th in the world), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ranked 82nd in the world), Rice University (ranked 89th in the world), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (globally