| University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 1 | £37,380 – £62,820 | 229 |
| MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 2 | $62,396 – $63,393 | 112 |
| Princeton University | United States | 3 | $62,688 – $62,860 | 118 |
| University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 3 | £29,052 – £70,554 | 32 |
| Harvard University | United States | 5 | $55,440 – $61,676 | 258 |
| Stanford University | United States | 5 | $59,499 – $65,910 | 179 |
| California Institute of Technology | United States | 7 | $63,063 – $65,898 | 74 |
| Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 8 | £15,000 – £58,600 | 81 |
| University of California, Berkeley | United States | 9 | $30,363 – $50,547 | 266 |
| Yale University | United States | 10 | $48,300 – $67,250 | 184 |
| ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 11 | CHF 4,380 | — |
| Tsinghua University | China | 12 | CN¥28,000 – CN¥198,000 | — |
| Peking University | China | 13 | CN¥26,000 – CN¥30,000 | — |
| University of Pennsylvania | United States | 14 | $46,034 – $68,686 | 267 |
| The University of Chicago | United States | 15 | $66,543 – $70,662 | 169 |
| Johns Hopkins University | United States | 16 | $65,230 – $65,956 | 209 |
| National University of Singapore | Singapore | 17 | SGD 21,400 – SGD 87,800 | — |
| Cornell University | United States | 18 | $30,085 – $69,314 | 267 |
| University of California, Los Angeles UCLA | United States | 18 | $28,985 – $49,403 | 225 |
| Columbia University | United States | 20 | $56,279 – $71,845 | 247 |
| University of Toronto | Canada | 21 | CA$66,110 – CA$75,150 | — |
| University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | United States | 23 | $55,052 – $60,946 | 283 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 24 | $49,450 – $66,246 | 214 |
| University of Washington (System) | United States | 25 | $32,511 – $43,209 | 383 |
| The University of Tokyo | Japan | 26 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 | — |
| Technical University of Munich | Germany | 27 | €4,000 – €12,000 | 75 |
| Duke University | United States | 28 | $63,985 – $68,758 | 191 |
| The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 29 | £1,546 – £18,552 | 375 |
| Northwestern University | United States | 30 | $53,871 – $68,322 | 268 |
| Nanyang Technological University - NTU Singapore | Singapore | 31 | SGD 21,400 – SGD 91,250 | — |
| New York University (NYU) | United States | 31 | $41,124 – $62,796 | 283 |
| The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | 33 | HK$224,000 – HK$249,000 | — |
| Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) | Germany | 34 | €0 | 20 |
| Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL | Switzerland | 35 | CHF 4,380 | — |
| The University of Melbourne | Australia | 37 | A$24,960 – A$95,488 | 421 |
| King's College London | United Kingdom | 38 | £29,850 – £34,550 | 133 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 41 | $30,646 – $34,484 | 125 |
| McGill University | Canada | 41 | CA$31,837 – CA$126,882 | — |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | 41 | HK$214,000 | — |
| University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign | United States | 41 | $33,640 – $35,124 | 299 |