| Rank/School |
Average
assessment score (5 = highest) |
| 1. |
University of
California–Berkeley |
5.0 |
| 2. |
California
Institute of Technology |
4.9 |
| |
Harvard
University (MA) |
4.9 |
| |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
4.9 |
| 5. |
Stanford
University (CA) |
4.8 |
| 6. |
Scripps Research
Institute (CA) |
4.5 |
| |
University of
Illinois–Urbana-Champaign |
4.5 |
| 8. |
Columbia
University (NY) |
4.4 |
| |
Cornell
University (NY) |
4.4 |
| |
University of
Wisconsin–Madison |
4.4 |
| 11. |
University of
California–Los Angeles |
4.3 |
| 12. |
Northwestern
University (IL) |
4.2 |
| |
University of
Texas–Austin |
4.2 |
| 14. |
Princeton
University (NJ) |
4.1 |
| |
University of
Chicago |
4.1 |
| |
University of
North Carolina–Chapel Hill |
4.1 |
| |
Yale University
(CT) |
4.1 |
| 18. |
Penn State
University–University Park |
4.0 |
| |
Purdue
University–West Lafayette (IN) |
4.0 |
| |
University of
Pennsylvania |
4.0 |
| 21. |
University of
Michigan–Ann Arbor |
3.9 |
| 22. |
Ohio State
University |
3.8 |
| |
Texas A&M
University–College Station |
3.8 |
| |
University of
California–San Diego |
3.8 |
| |
University of
Colorado–Boulder |
3.8 |
| |
University of
Minnesota–Twin Cities |
3.8 |
| 27. |
Indiana
University–Bloomington |
3.7 |
| |
Johns Hopkins
University (MD) |
3.7 |
| |
University of
Washington |
3.7 |
| 30. |
University of
California–Irvine |
3.6 |
| |
University of
California–Santa Barbara |
3.6 |
| 32. |
Georgia Institute
of Technology |
3.5 |
| |
Iowa State
University |
3.5 |
| |
Michigan State
University |
3.5 |
| |
Rice University
(TX) |
3.5 |
| |
University of
Florida |
3.5 |
| 37. |
Colorado State
University |
3.4 |
| |
University of
Arizona |
3.4 |
| |
University of
California–Davis |
3.4 |
| |
University of
California–San Francisco |
3.4 |
| |
University of
Pittsburgh |
3.4 |
| |
University of
Utah |
3.4 |
| 43. |
Duke University
(NC) |
3.3 |
| |
Emory University
(GA) |
3.3 |
| |
University of
Maryland–College Park |
3.3 |
| |
Washington
University in St. Louis |
3.3 |
| 47. |
SUNY–Stony
Brook |
3.2 |
| |
University of
Rochester (NY) |
3.2 |
| |
University of
Southern California |
3.2 |
| |
University of
Virginia |
3.2 |
| 51. |
Carnegie Mellon
University (PA) |
3.1 |
| |
Florida State
University |
3.1 |
| |
North Carolina
State University |
3.1 |
| 54. |
Arizona State
University |
3.0 |
| |
University of
California–Riverside |
3.0 |
| |
University of
Georgia |
3.0 |
| |
University of
Massachusetts–Amherst |
3.0 |
| 58. |
Boston College |
2.9 |
| |
Brown University
(RI) |
2.9 |
| |
Case Western
Reserve University (OH) |
2.9 |
| |
University of
Iowa |
2.9 |
| |
University of
Kansas |
2.9 |
| |
University of
Notre Dame (IN) |
2.9 |
| |
University of
Oregon |
2.9 |
| |
Virginia Tech |
2.9 |
| |
Wayne State
University (MI) |
2.9 |
| 67. |
Brandeis
University (MA) |
2.8 |
| |
Dartmouth College
(NH) |
2.8 |
| |
Louisiana State
University–Baton Rouge |
2.8 |
| |
Rutgers State
University–New Brunswick (NJ) |
2.8 |
| |
SUNY–Buffalo |
2.8 |
| |
University of
Delaware |
2.8 |
| |
Vanderbilt
University (TN) |
2.8 |
| 74. |
Boston University |
2.7 |
| |
Oregon State
University |
2.7 |
| |
University of
Illinois–Chicago |
2.7 |
| |
University of
South Carolina |
2.7 |
| |
University of
Tennessee–Knoxville |
2.7 |
| |
Washington State
University |
2.7 |
| 80. |
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (NY) |
2.6 |
| |
Syracuse
University (NY) |
2.6 |
| |
University of
Connecticut |
2.6 |
| |
University of
Houston |
2.6 |
| |
University of
Missouri–Columbia |
2.6 |
| |
University of
Nebraska–Lincoln |
2.6 |
| 86. |
Kansas State
University |
2.5 |
| |
New York
University |
2.5 |
| |
University of
California–Santa Cruz |
2.5 |
| |
University of
Cincinnati |
2.5 |