以下是THES評審出的首50名大學的名單：

1 Harvard
2 Berkeley
3 MIT
4 CalTech
5 Oxford
6 Cambridge
7 Standford
8 Yale
9 Princeton
10 ETH Zurich
11 Lon. Sch. Eco
12 Tokyo
13 Chicago
14 Imp. Col. Lon.
15 Texas - Austin
16 ANU
17 Beijing
18 National Sing.
19 Columbia
20 Calif San Fr.
21 McGill
22 Melbourne
23 Cornell
24 Cal.San Diego
25 John Hopkins
26 Cal. Los Ang.
27 Ecole Poly.
28 Pennsylvan.
29 Kyoto
30 Ecole Paris
31 Michigan
32 Ecole Poly.
33 Monash
34 U.C. London
35 Illinois
36 UNSW
37 Toronto
38 Carnegie M.
39 Hong Kong
40 Sydney
41 Indian In.Tec
42 HK Sc & Tech
43 Manchester
44 SOAS
45 Massachusetts
46 Br. Columbia
47 Heidelberg
48 Edinburgh
49 Queensland
50 Nanyang
61 Tsinghua
84 Chin Univ HK