| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 100.0 | 92.9 | 98.8 | 95.1 | 97.4 |
| 2 | 2 | Harvard University | United States | 93.6 | 98.6 | 98.0 | 100.0 | 96.8 |
| 3 | 3 | Stanford University | United States | 88.6 | 91.3 | 95.7 | 93.0 | 91.4 |
| 4= | 6 | Princeton University | United States | 92.0 | 81.0 | 98.1 | 89.8 | 90.6 |
| 4= | 7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 88.2 | 84.1 | 97.9 | 94.4 | 90.6 |
| 4= | 5 | University of Chicago | United States | 88.5 | 80.1 | 100.0 | 95.9 | 90.6 |
| 7 | 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 89.1 | 93.7 | 91.1 | 88.0 | 90.2 |
| 8 | 8 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 86.7 | 100.0 | 87.9 | 86.7 | 89.6 |
| 9 | 10 | Yale University | United States | 86.3 | 86.1 | 95.7 | 90.6 | 89.0 |
| 10 | 9 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 85.3 | 99.7 | 88.2 | 84.2 | 88.5 |
| 11 | 11 | Columbia University | United States | 82.7 | 84.2 | 93.5 | 92.7 | 87.2 |
| 12= | 14 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 81.5 | 82.7 | 94.0 | 87.3 | 85.4 |
| 12= | 12 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 81.1 | 82.0 | 93.5 | 89.2 | 85.4 |
| 14 | 13 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 80.7 | 78.3 | 94.2 | 91.7 | 85.1 |
| 15 | 15 | Northwestern University | United States | 81.8 | 70.0 | 94.5 | 88.3 | 83.3 |
| 16 | 16 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 78.0 | 81.3 | 90.1 | 83.5 | 82.2 |
| 17 | 17 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Italy | 74.6 | 88.3 | 90.6 | 81.0 | 81.8 |
| 18 | 21 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 80.8 | 88.4 | 82.4 | 71.9 | 80.9 |
| 19 | 19 | University of Michigan | United States | 75.2 | 73.7 | 91.2 | 86.7 | 80.4 |
| 20 | 23 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Spain | 80.1 | 63.5 | 94.0 | 82.7 | 80.1 |
| 21= | 20 | Duke University | United States | 72.6 | 71.5 | 94.3 | 87.0 | 79.6 |
| 21= | 18 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 77.3 | 63.1 | 95.4 | 85.0 | 79.6 |
| 23 | 25 | University of Toronto | Canada | 74.6 | 76.8 | 88.4 | 83.1 | 79.5 |
| 24 | 22 | Cornell University | United States | 73.8 | 78.0 | 86.6 | 83.1 | 79.1 |
| 25 | 30 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | 77.3 | 81.2 | 86.9 | 71.9 | 78.9 |
| 26 | 29 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 77.4 | 80.4 | 83.1 | 75.6 | 78.8 |
| 27 | 26= | London Business School | United Kingdom | 68.3 | 91.3 | 89.7 | 76.1 | 78.7 |
| 28 | 26= | University of British Columbia | Canada | 73.2 | 76.5 | 89.6 | 80.1 | 78.5 |
| 29 | 33= | Brown University | United States | 72.6 | 68.9 | 94.1 | 82.3 | 78.1 |
| 30 | 26= | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 77.2 | 78.6 | 81.6 | 75.6 | 78.0 |
| 31 | 35 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 78.4 | 86.0 | 77.3 | 69.0 | 77.8 |
| 32 | 24 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 74.4 | 86.1 | 79.7 | 73.2 | 77.6 |
| 33 | 33= | Peking University | China | 75.3 | 85.7 | 80.1 | 69.7 | 77.2 |
| 34 | 31 | Stockholm School of Economics | Sweden | 73.9 | 75.0 | 85.6 | 75.0 | 76.7 |
| 35 | 32 | Boston University | United States | 70.8 | 71.3 | 90.0 | 79.2 | 76.4 |
| 36 | 44 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 69.4 | 81.5 | 85.0 | 75.6 | 76.2 |
| 37 | 36 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 71.2 | 83.0 | 83.7 | 71.2 | 76.1 |
| 38= | 43 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 73.9 | 82.3 | 79.8 | 69.0 | 75.8 |
| 38= | 45= | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 71.1 | 84.1 | 79.3 | 73.2 | 75.8 |
| 40 | 40 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 70.9 | 77.7 | 83.5 | 75.6 | 75.7 |
| 41 | 41= | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 70.8 | 71.6 | 84.5 | 78.7 | 75.3 |
| 42= | 45= | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 72.4 | 71.6 | 86.7 | 72.5 | 75.1 |
| 42= | 41= | University of Minnesota | United States | 74.3 | 56.0 | 88.8 | 81.9 | 75.1 |
| 44 | 51-100 | Tsinghua University | China | 71.4 | 83.3 | 80.5 | 68.2 | 75.0 |
| 45 | 38= | Monash University | Australia | 69.5 | 80.8 | 80.3 | 73.8 | 74.8 |
| 46 | 49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong | 69.3 | 77.6 | 85.2 | 71.2 | 74.5 |
| 47 | 37 | Tilburg University | Netherlands | 73.1 | 58.4 | 86.1 | 80.1 | 74.2 |
| 48= | 51-100 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 67.7 | 63.0 | 89.1 | 82.7 | 74.0 |
| 48= | 51-100 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 66.9 | 68.3 | 88.0 | 79.7 | 74.0 |
| 50= | 38= | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Spain | 72.9 | 69.1 | 82.1 | 71.9 | 73.8 |
| 50= | 51-100 | Universität Mannheim | Germany | 67.2 | 67.6 | 89.6 | 77.2 | 73.8 |