| Rank | School name |
| #1 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA |
| #1 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ |
| #1 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| #5 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
| #5 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
| #7 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL |
| #7 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
| #9 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
| #10 | Columbia University New York, NY |
| #11 | New York University New York, NY |
| #11 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN |
| #13 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
| #13 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI |
| #15 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
| #15 | University of California—Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
| #15 | University of California—San Diego La Jolla, CA |
| #18 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
| #19 | Brown University Providence, RI |
| #19 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA |
| #19 | Duke University Durham, NC |
| #22 | University of Maryland—College Park College Park, MD |
| #22 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY |
| #24 | Boston University Boston, MA |
| #24 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD |
| #26 | University of Texas—Austin Austin, TX |
| #27 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH |
| #27 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA |
| #27 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO |
| #30 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI |
| #30 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
| #32 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA |
| #32 | University of California—Davis Davis, CA |
| #32 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
| #32 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
| #36 | Arizona State University Tempe, AZ |
| #36 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
| #36 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA |
| #36 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
| #40 | University of Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA |
| #40 | University of Washington Seattle, WA |
| #42 | Indiana University—Bloomington Bloomington, IN |
| #42 | Purdue University—West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN |
| #42 | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX |
| #42 | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA |
| #46 | Georgetown University Washington, DC |
| #46 | University of California—Irvine Irvine, CA |
| #48 | North Carolina State University—Raleigh Raleigh, NC |
| #48 | Rice University Houston, TX |
| #48 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ |
| #48 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA |