| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 100.0 | 94.9 | 90.3 | 88.2 | 97.3 |
| 2 | 2 | The Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 98.8 | 80.6 | 94.4 | 92.2 | 95.9 |
| 3 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 90.1 | 88.3 | 100.0 | 97.9 | 91.7 |
| 4 | 3 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 91.1 | 84.2 | 91.4 | 99.0 | 91.2 |
| 5 | 5 | Harvard University | United States | 90.9 | 100.0 | 87.3 | 74.8 | 89.8 |
| 6 | 9 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 87.6 | 98.4 | 90.7 | 76.8 | 87.9 |
| 7 | 7 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 91.4 | 74.2 | 88.0 | 74.8 | 87.7 |
| 8 | 8 | Tsinghua University | China | 86.3 | 94.5 | 87.0 | 85.3 | 87.1 |
| 9 | 6 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 85.4 | 90.2 | 92.8 | 89.6 | 87.0 |
| 10 | Manchester School of Architecture | United Kingdom | 84.8 | 73.4 | 93.6 | 85.3 | 84.6 | |
| 11 | 13 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 83.6 | 80.2 | 89.9 | 88.2 | 84.4 |
| 12 | 11 | Columbia University | United States | 83.1 | 85.4 | 90.7 | 80.4 | 83.8 |
| 13 | 10 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 84.3 | 89.5 | 77.5 | 72.7 | 83.0 |
| 14 | 18 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 82.4 | 87.3 | 89.5 | 72.7 | 82.6 |
| 15 | 14 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy | 82.0 | 88.6 | 83.0 | 78.7 | 82.4 |
| 16 | 12 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | 78.8 | 75.2 | 95.7 | 100.0 | 82.3 |
| 17 | 17 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 78.1 | 82.2 | 94.2 | 92.2 | 81.5 |
| 18 | 15 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 80.0 | 80.2 | 90.1 | 80.4 | 81.1 |
| 19 | 22= | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 80.4 | 84.9 | 82.1 | 74.8 | 80.5 |
| 20 | 27 | Cornell University | United States | 80.2 | 70.6 | 87.9 | 74.8 | 79.5 |
| 21 | 24 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 75.6 | 80.5 | 96.5 | 86.8 | 79.3 |
| 22 | 16 | Tongji University | China | 77.8 | 82.9 | 78.0 | 86.8 | 79.2 |
| 23 | 30 | Stanford University | United States | 74.5 | 91.1 | 93.5 | 83.8 | 79.0 |
| 24 | 21 | KTH, Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 78.8 | 65.8 | 88.7 | 82.2 | 78.8 |
| 25= | 25 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 77.5 | 69.3 | 88.2 | 83.8 | 78.4 |
| 25= | 35 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 79.0 | 75.9 | 82.3 | 72.7 | 78.4 |
| 27 | 20 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 75.3 | 80.2 | 92.3 | 82.2 | 78.2 |
| 28 | 26 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States | 75.5 | 67.0 | 91.1 | 94.6 | 78.1 |
| 29= | 31 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Chile | 75.6 | 84.0 | 86.2 | 76.8 | 77.6 |
| 29= | 22= | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain | 75.9 | 84.0 | 83.8 | 76.8 | 77.6 |
| 31 | 19 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 75.9 | 89.1 | 83.3 | 70.4 | 77.4 |
| 32 | 38 | Princeton University | United States | 76.8 | 83.8 | 82.7 | 68.0 | 77.2 |
| 33 | 36 | University of Toronto | Canada | 73.7 | 72.0 | 95.3 | 83.8 | 76.7 |
| 34 | 41= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 72.9 | 76.4 | 91.1 | 86.8 | 76.5 |
| 35 | 29 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 76.3 | 61.7 | 90.9 | 74.8 | 76.2 |
| 36 | 33= | RMIT University | Australia | 75.4 | 84.5 | 80.5 | 62.6 | 75.5 |
| 37= | 28 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 70.9 | 68.1 | 96.8 | 89.6 | 75.1 |
| 37= | 44 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 75.1 | 54.1 | 90.7 | 80.4 | 75.1 |
| 37= | 33= | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | Brazil | 74.8 | 76.4 | 85.3 | 65.4 | 75.1 |
| 40 | 46 | Technische Universität München | Germany | 74.4 | 73.4 | 82.8 | 72.7 | 75.0 |
| 41 | 51-100 | Yale University | United States | 75.8 | 88.9 | 71.0 | 56.2 | 74.7 |
| 42 | 32 | Kyoto University | Japan | 76.3 | 82.0 | 72.5 | 56.2 | 74.5 |
| 43 | 37 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 72.4 | 78.2 | 85.5 | 70.4 | 74.1 |
| 44 | 45 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 69.5 | 91.8 | 86.0 | 72.7 | 73.7 |
| 45 | 49= | University of Michigan | United States | 72.7 | 61.4 | 84.5 | 80.4 | 73.5 |
| 46 | 39 | University of Salford | United Kingdom | 70.9 | 81.2 | 88.5 | 68.0 | 73.4 |
| 47= | 51-100 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 72.1 | 63.3 | 89.3 | 72.7 | 73.0 |
| 47= | 40 | University of Newcastle | Australia | 72.8 | 67.1 | 85.1 | 68.0 | 73.0 |
| 49 | 51-100 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 68.9 | 71.4 | 96.5 | 78.7 | 72.9 |
| 50 | 51-100 | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | 70.1 | 70.9 | 88.7 | 76.8 | 72.7 |