Take a look at the list of the top 25 below. The numbers in parenthesis indicate 2012's rankings.

• 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1)

• 2. Harvard University (2)

• 3. Columbia University (4)

• 4. Stanford University (8)

• 5. University of California, Berkeley (14)

• 6. Yale University (9)

• 7. University of Chicago (3)

• 8. University of Texas, Austin (10)

• 9. Cornell University (6)

• 10. Princeton University (15)

• 11. University of Pennsylvania (12)

• 12. Ohio State University, Columbus (16)

• 13. University of Washington (13)

• 14. University of California, Los Angeles (7)

• 15. New York University (20)

• 16. University of Wisconsin, Madison (5)

• 17. Virginia Tech (19)

• 18. University of California, Davis (17)

• 19. University of California, San Diego (22)

• 20. University of Minnesota (35)

• 21. Georgia Institute of Technology (23)

• 22. Johns Hopkins University (24)

• 23. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (28)

• 24. Duke University (21)

• 25. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (13)