| Rank/School |
Average
reputation score
(5 = highest) |
| 1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
5.0 |
| | Stanford University (CA) |
5.0 |
| 3. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) |
4.9 |
| | University of California-Berkeley |
4.9 |
| 5. | Cornell University (NY) |
4.5 |
| | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign |
4.5 |
| 7. | University of Washington |
4.3 |
| 8. | Princeton University (NJ) |
4.2 |
| 9. | University of Texas-Austin |
4.1 |
| | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
4.1 |
| 11. | California Institute of Technology |
3.9 |
| | University of Maryland-College Park |
3.9 |
| 13. | Brown University (RI) |
3.8 |
| | Georgia Institute of Technology |
3.8 |
| | University of California-Los Angeles |
3.8 |
| | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
3.8 |
| 17. | Harvard University (MA) |
3.7 |
| | Purdue University-West Lafayette (IN) |
3.7 |
| | Rice University (TX) |
3.7 |
| | Yale University (CT) |
3.7 |
| 21. | Columbia University (NY) |
3.6 |
| | University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
3.6 |
| | University of North Carolina |
3.6 |
| | University of Southern California |
3.6 |
| 25. | University of California-San Diego |
3.5 |
| | University of Pennsylvania |
3.5 |