| Rank/School | Average 
                        assessment score (5 = highest) | 
                    
                      | 1. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 4.9 | 
                    
                      |  | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.9 | 
                    
                      |  | Stanford University (CA) | 4.9 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Berkeley | 4.9 | 
                    
                      | 5. | University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.6 | 
                    
                      | 6. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.5 | 
                    
                      | 7. | University of Texas–Austin | 4.4 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Washington | 4.4 | 
                    
                      | 9. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.3 | 
                    
                      | 10. | California Institute of Technology | 4.1 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.1 | 
                    
                      | 12. | Georgia Institute of Technology | 4.0 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Maryland–College Park | 4.0 | 
                    
                      | 14. | Brown University (RI) | 3.9 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Los Angeles | 3.9 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 3.9 | 
                    
                      | 17. | Rice University (TX) | 3.8 | 
                    
                      |  | University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.8 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Pennsylvania | 3.8 | 
                    
                      | 20. | Columbia University (NY) | 3.7 | 
                    
                      |  | Duke University (NC) | 3.7 | 
                    
                      |  | Harvard University (MA) | 3.7 | 
                    
                      |  | Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.7 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–San Diego | 3.7 | 
                    
                      | 25. | University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.6 | 
                    
                      |  | Yale University (CT) | 3.6 | 
                    
                      | 27. | University of Southern California | 3.5 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Virginia | 3.5 | 
                    
                      | 29. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.3 | 
                    
                      |  | New 
                        York University | 3.3 | 
                    
                      |  | Rutgers State University–New Brunswick 
                        (NJ) | 3.3 | 
                    
                      |  | SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.3 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Irvine | 3.3 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Utah | 3.3 | 
                    
                      | 35. | Ohio State University | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | Penn State University–University Park | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Arizona | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Chicago | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.2 | 
                    
                      |  | Washington University in St. Louis | 3.2 | 
                    
                      | 42. | Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.1 | 
                    
                      |  | Northwestern University (IL) | 3.1 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Davis | 3.1 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Rochester (NY) | 3.1 | 
                    
                      |  | Virginia Tech | 3.1 | 
                    
                      | 47. | Dartmouth College (NH) | 3.0 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Florida | 3.0 | 
                    
                      | 49. | Michigan State University | 2.9 | 
                    
                      |  | North Carolina State University | 2.9 | 
                    
                      |  | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.9 | 
                    
                      |  | Texas A&M University–College Station | 2.9 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Santa Barbara | 2.9 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Pittsburgh | 2.9 | 
                    
                      | 55. | Arizona State University | 2.7 | 
                    
                      |  | SUNY–Buffalo | 2.7 | 
                    
                      |  | Syracuse University (NY) | 2.7 | 
                    
                      |  | University of California–Santa Cruz | 2.7 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.7 | 
                    
                      | 60. | Boston University | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | Iowa State University | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | OGI 
                        School of Science & Engineering–Oregon Health & 
                        Science U. | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Delaware | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Iowa | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Oregon | 2.6 | 
                    
                      |  | Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.6 | 
                    
                      | 67. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.5 | 
                    
                      |  | Northeastern University (MA) | 2.5 | 
                    
                      |  | Oregon State University | 2.5 | 
                    
                      |  | University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.5 |