| Rank | School name | Score | 
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of  Technology Cambridge, MA | 5 | 
| #2 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 4.9 | 
| #2 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4.9 | 
| #2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.9 | 
| #2 | University of California–Berkeley  Berkeley, CA | 4.9 | 
| #6 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | 4.8 | 
| #7 | California Institute of Technology  Pasadena, CA | 4.6 | 
| #8 | University of California–Los  Angeles Los Angeles, CA | 4.5 | 
| #8 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor  Ann Arbor, MI | 4.5 | 
| #10 | Columbia University New York, NY | 4.4 | 
| #10 | New York University New York, NY | 4.4 | 
| #10 | Yale University New Haven, CT | 4.4 | 
| #13 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4.3 | 
| #14 | Brown University Providence, RI | 4.2 | 
| #14 | University of Texas–Austin  Austin, TX | 4.2 | 
| #16 | Northwestern University Evanston,  IL | 4.1 | 
| #16 | University of Wisconsin–Madison  Madison, WI | 4.1 | 
| #18 | University of Minnesota–Twin  Cities Minneapolis, MN | 4 | 
| #18 | University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA | 4 | 
| #20 | Rutgers, the State University of  New Jersey–New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ | 3.9 | 
| #20 | University of California–San  Diego La Jolla, CA | 3.9 | 
| #20 | University of  Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 3.9 | 
| #20 | University of Maryland–College  Park College Park, MD | 3.9 | 
| #24 | Duke University Durham, NC | 3.8 | 
| #24 | Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore, MD | 3.8 | 
| #24 | Stony Brook University–SUNY Stony  Brook, NY | 3.8 | 
| #27 | Pennsylvania State  University–University Park University Park, PA | 3.7 | 
| #27 | Purdue University–West Lafayette  West Lafayette, IN | 3.7 | 
| #27 | University of Washington Seattle,  WA | 3.7 | 
| #30 | Georgia Institute of Technology  Atlanta, GA | 3.6 | 
| #30 | Indiana University–Bloomington  Bloomington, IN | 3.6 | 
| #30 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.6 | 
| #30 | Rice University Houston, TX | 3.6 | 
| #30 | University of North  Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | 3.6 | 
| #30 | University of Utah Salt Lake City,  UT | 3.6 | 
| #36 | Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA | 3.5 | 
| #36 | CUNY Graduate School and  University Center New York, NY | 3.5 | 
| #36 | University of California–Davis  Davis, CA | 3.5 | 
| #36 | University of Illinois–Chicago  Chicago, IL | 3.5 | 
| #40 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | 3.4 | 
| #40 | Texas A&M University–College  Station College Station, TX | 3.4 | 
| #40 | Washington University in St. Louis  St. Louis, MO | 3.4 | 
| #43 | Michigan State University East  Lansing, MI | 3.3 | 
| #43 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | 3.3 | 
| #43 | University of California–Irvine  Irvine, CA | 3.3 | 
| #46 | Boston University Boston, MA | 3.2 | 
| #46 | University of California–Santa  Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 3.2 | 
| #46 | University of Colorado–Boulder  Boulder, CO | 3.2 | 
| #46 | University of Notre Dame Notre  Dame, IN | 3.2 | 
| #46 | University of Virginia  Charlottesville, VA | 3.2 |