| Rank | School | Location | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 4.9 |
| 2 | Harvard University | Boston, MA | 4.8 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 4.8 |
| 2 | University of California--Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 4.8 |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 4.7 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 4.7 |
| 7 | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 4.5 |
| 7 | Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | 4.5 |
| 7 | University of California--San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | 4.5 |
| 7 | Yale University | New Haven, CT | 4.5 |
| 11 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 4.4 |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO | 4.4 |
| 13 | Duke University | Durham, NC | 4.3 |
| 13 | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 4.3 |
| 15 | Columbia University | New York, NY | 4.2 |
| 15 | Rockefeller University | New York, NY | 4.2 |
| 15 | University of California--San Diego | La Jolla, CA | 4.2 |
| 15 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | 4.2 |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | Madison, WI | 4.2 |
| 20 | University of California--Davis | Davis, CA | 4.1 |
| 20 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 4.1 |
| 20 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 4.1 |
| 20 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center--Dallas | Dallas, TX | 4.1 |
| 24 | University of California--Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | 4.0 |
| 24 | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | 4.0 |
