| Characteristic | Score obtained in the Shanghai Ranking |
|---|---|
| Harvard University | 100 |
| Stanford University | 75.1 |
| University of Cambridge | 72.3 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 69 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 67.9 |
| Princeton University | 60 |
| University of Oxford | 59.7 |
| Columbia University | 59.1 |
| California Institute of Technology | 58.6 |
| University of Chicago | 55.1 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 50.8 |
| Yale University | 50.8 |
| Cornell University | 49.8 |
| University of Washington | 48.7 |
| University College London | 47.9 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 47.6 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 47.3 |
| University of California, San Diego | 47.1 |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 46.1 |
| University of California, San Francisco | 42.2 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 42.2 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 41.7 |
| Imperial College London | 41.6 |
| University of Toronto | 41.4 |
| The University of Tokyo | 40.7 |
| University of Copenhagen | 40.2 |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | 38.8 |
| Duke University | 38.6 |
| Northwestern University | 38.4 |
| New York University | 38.1 |
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June 2019
Worldwide
2019
scale where 0 is the lowest score and 100 the highest score
Various indicators are used for the classification of universities:
- Number of Nobel Prize or Fields Medal laureates either trained at the university (weighted 10 percent) or working there (weighted 20 percent).
- Number of highly cited researchers in 21 general subjects (20 percent).
- Number of articles published in the scientific journals Science and Nature (20 percent).
- Number of academic papers indexed in the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index (20 percent).
- Per capita performance, that is, the score of all the above indicators divided by the number of full-time faculty members (10 percent).
