| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 100.0 | 95.2 | 95.1 | 97.0 | 97.5 |
| 2 | 2 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 97.4 | 86.2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 96.2 |
| 3 | 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 98.7 | 100.0 | 91.3 | 90.5 | 95.8 |
| 4 | 4 | Harvard University | United States | 98.3 | 96.6 | 93.3 | 86.3 | 94.6 |
| 5 | 6 | Stanford University | United States | 94.3 | 90.5 | 97.0 | 96.0 | 94.4 |
| 6 | 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 97.4 | 98.4 | 88.4 | 88.9 | 94.1 |
| 7 | 7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 88.9 | 92.7 | 92.2 | 95.2 | 91.6 |
| 8 | 9 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 92.5 | 94.9 | 86.2 | 90.1 | 91.2 |
| 9 | 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 95.1 | 77.3 | 97.2 | 86.6 | 90.3 |
| 10= | 8 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 93.4 | 89.0 | 87.4 | 85.0 | 89.6 |
| 10= | 11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 89.7 | 88.0 | 92.2 | 88.6 | 89.6 |
| 12 | 12 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 89.0 | 80.5 | 99.6 | 89.3 | 89.5 |
| 13 | 13 | Northwestern University | United States | 90.9 | 69.9 | 98.3 | 95.4 | 89.1 |
| 14 | 14 | Kyoto University | Japan | 88.8 | 92.0 | 82.9 | 87.4 | 88.0 |
| 15 | 18 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 82.7 | 85.3 | 92.9 | 94.8 | 87.7 |
| 16 | 15 | Peking University | China | 85.7 | 87.6 | 87.4 | 91.2 | 87.5 |
| 17 | 17 | Tsinghua University | China | 83.2 | 89.0 | 86.9 | 93.8 | 87.2 |
| 18 | 16 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 85.0 | 77.9 | 94.1 | 89.1 | 86.2 |
| 19 | 26= | Yale University | United States | 84.7 | 84.6 | 94.3 | 81.4 | 85.9 |
| 20 | 26= | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 82.7 | 79.9 | 91.3 | 87.6 | 84.8 |
| 21= | 21 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 84.5 | 83.4 | 85.0 | 85.8 | 84.6 |
| 21= | 22 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 88.8 | 87.1 | 79.6 | 78.9 | 84.6 |
| 23 | 23 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 84.5 | 88.1 | 88.1 | 77.1 | 84.5 |
| 24 | 24 | University of Toronto | Canada | 84.0 | 77.3 | 90.5 | 86.3 | 84.4 |
| 25 | 19 | Osaka University | Japan | 81.0 | 85.3 | 84.3 | 88.6 | 84.0 |
| 26 | 32 | Princeton University | United States | 82.2 | 81.4 | 92.0 | 81.1 | 83.8 |
| 27 | 20 | Technische Universität München | Germany | 85.9 | 78.5 | 85.3 | 82.7 | 83.7 |
| 28 | 25 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | 80.8 | 83.4 | 90.8 | 80.5 | 83.3 |
| 29= | 28= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 79.6 | 87.0 | 84.5 | 85.0 | 83.1 |
| 29= | 28= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 80.2 | 67.0 | 95.9 | 92.1 | 83.1 |
| 31 | 33 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 81.7 | 65.2 | 92.4 | 89.6 | 82.1 |
| 32 | 31 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States | 77.8 | 73.6 | 91.8 | 88.9 | 82.0 |
| 33 | 34 | Monash University | Australia | 80.7 | 79.9 | 86.1 | 82.1 | 81.9 |
| 34= | 36= | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 81.0 | 79.9 | 84.9 | 81.1 | 81.6 |
| 34= | 41= | Tohoku University | Japan | 80.9 | 83.5 | 80.2 | 82.7 | 81.6 |
| 36= | 51-100 | Fudan University | China | 74.3 | 74.6 | 89.9 | 94.4 | 81.5 |
| 36= | 38 | University of Michigan | United States | 76.6 | 75.7 | 92.2 | 86.6 | 81.5 |
| 38 | 35 | Cornell University | United States | 79.5 | 78.8 | 89.0 | 80.2 | 81.4 |
| 39= | 30 | McGill University | Canada | 78.4 | 81.3 | 87.5 | 80.5 | 81.2 |
| 39= | 45= | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 80.6 | 84.3 | 84.5 | 76.0 | 81.2 |
| 41 | 36= | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 79.5 | 63.3 | 95.1 | 86.1 | 80.7 |
| 42= | 40 | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | 76.2 | 77.8 | 87.1 | 85.2 | 80.5 |
| 42= | 50 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 80.8 | 78.6 | 83.4 | 78.9 | 80.5 |
| 44 | 43 | Columbia University | United States | 79.6 | 75.9 | 88.7 | 77.8 | 80.3 |
| 45 | 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 77.9 | 83.3 | 80.5 | 79.9 | 79.9 |
| 46= | 41= | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 80.4 | 65.3 | 89.5 | 82.7 | 79.7 |
| 46= | 51-100 | University of Chicago | United States | 78.7 | 70.3 | 93.3 | 77.5 | 79.7 |
| 46= | 39 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 76.4 | 73.9 | 90.1 | 81.8 | 79.7 |
| 49= | 51-100 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 76.6 | 83.1 | 85.3 | 76.4 | 79.6 |
| 49= | 47= | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 77.4 | 66.8 | 89.6 | 86.6 | 79.6 |