Харвард е номер едно за 10 година в Академичната класация на световните университети (ARWU), разработена от специален център към Университета Shanghai Jiao Tong. Всяка година се изследват по 6 показателя 1200 световни висши училища и се публикува класация на 500-те най-добри.
Въз основа на голямата класация са изведени и петте най-добри университета по няколко специалности:
Естествени науки и математика – Харвард, Бъркли, Принстън, Калифорнийския технологичен институт и MIT
Инженерство / технологии и компютърни науки – MIT, Станфорд, Бъркли, UIUC и UT Остин
Земеделски науки – Харвард, Масачузетския технологичен институт, Калифорнийския университет в Сан Франциско, Кеймбридж и Вашингтон (Сиатъл)
Клинична медицина и фармация – Харвард, Калифорнийския университет в Сан Франциско, Вашингтон (Сиатъл), “Джон Хопкинс” и Колумбия
Обществени науки – Харвард, Чикаго, Бъркли, Масачузетския технологичен институт и Колумбийския
Математика – Принстън, Харвард, Бъркли, Кеймбридж и Станфорд
Физика – Харвард, MIT, Бъркли, Принстън и Калифорнийския технологичен институт
Химия – Харвард, Бъркли, Станфорд, Кеймбридж и ETH Zurich
Компютърни науки – Станфорд, MIT, Бъркли, Принстън и Харвард
Икономика / Бизнес – Харвард, Чикаго, MIT, Бъркли и Колумбия
1 Harvard
2 Stanford University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University
8 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
10 University of Oxford
11 Yale University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Cornell University
14 University of Pennsylvania
15 University of California, San Diego
16 University of Washington
17 The Johns Hopkins University
18 University of California, San Francisco
19 University of Wisconsin – Madison
20 The University of Tokyo
21 University College London
22 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
23 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
24 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
26 Kyoto University
27 New York University
27 University of Toronto
29 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
30 Northwestern University
31 Washington University in St. Louis
32 Rockefeller University
33 University of Colorado at Boulder
34 University of California, Santa Barbara
35 The University of Texas at Austin
36 Duke University
37 University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)
38 University of Maryland, College Park
39 University of British Columbia
40 The University of Manchester
41 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
42 Karolinska Institute
42 Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris 6
44 University of Copenhagen
45 University of California, Irvine
46 University of Southern California
47 University of California, Davis
48 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
49 Pennsylvania State University – University Park
50 Vanderbilt University
51 Carnegie Mellon University
51 The University of Edinburgh
53 Technical University Munich
53 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
53 Utrecht University
56 Purdue University – West Lafayette
57 University of Melbourne
58 University of Pittsburgh
59 University of Zurich
60 University of Munich
61 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
62 University of Heidelberg
63 McGill University
64 The Australian National University
65 Brown University
65 The Ohio State University – Columbus
67 University of Oslo
68 King’s College London
69 University of Geneva
70 University of Bristol
71 Boston University
72 University of Florida
73 Ecole Normale Superieure – Paris
73 Leiden University
73 University of Helsinki
73 Uppsala University
77 University of Arizona
78 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
79 Arizona State University – Tempe
80 Moscow State University
81 Stockholm University
82 University of Utah
83 Osaka University
84 Indiana University Bloomington
85 University of Basel
86 Aarhus University
86 University of Nottingham
86 University of Rochester
89 Ghent University
90 The University of Queensland
91 Rice University
92 McMaster University
93 Texas A&M University – College Station
93 University of Sydney
93 Weizmann Institute of Science
96 Michigan State University
96 Nagoya University
96 The University of Western Australia
99 Case Western Reserve University
99 University of Freiburg
101-150 Aix Marseille University
101-150 Baylor College of Medicine
101-150 Catholic University of Leuven
101-150 Catholic University of Louvain
101-150 Emory University
101-150 Georgia Institute of Technology
101-150 Hokkaido University
101-150 Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1)
101-150 London School of Economics and Political Science
101-150 Lund University
101-150 Mayo Medical School
101-150 Monash University
101-150 National Taiwan University
101-150 National University of Singapore
101-150 Radboud University Nijmegen
101-150 Seoul National University
101-150 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne
101-150 Tel Aviv University
101-150 The University of Georgia
101-150 The University of Sheffield
101-150 Tohoku University
101-150 Tokyo Institute of Technology
101-150 Tufts University
101-150 University of Alberta
101-150 University of Amsterdam
101-150 University of Birmingham
101-150 University of Bonn
101-150 University of California, Riverside
101-150 University of California, Santa Cruz
101-150 University of Delaware
101-150 University of Frankfurt
101-150 University of Goettingen
101-150 University of Groningen
101-150 University of Hawaii at Manoa
101-150 University of Iowa
101-150 University of Liverpool
101-150 University of Massachusetts Amherst
101-150 University of Massachusetts Medical School – Worcester
101-150 University of Montreal
101-150 University of Muenster
101-150 University of New South Wales
101-150 University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
101-150 University of Pisa
101-150 University of Roma – La Sapienza
101-150 University of Sao Paulo
101-150 University of Strasbourg
101-150 University of Sussex
101-150 University of Virginia
101-150 University of Wageningen
101-150 VU University Amsterdam
151-200 Cardiff University
151-200 Colorado State University
151-200 Dartmouth College
151-200 Erasmus University
151-200 George Mason University
151-200 Iowa State University
151-200 Kyushu University
151-200 Mount Sinai School of Medicine
151-200 National Autonomous University of Mexico
151-200 North Carolina State University – Raleigh
151-200 Oregon Health and Science University
151-200 Oregon State University
151-200 Peking University
151-200 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
151-200 State University of New York at Stony Brook
151-200 Technical University of Denmark
151-200 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
151-200 The University of Auckland
151-200 The University of Glasgow
151-200 The University of Hong Kong
151-200 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
151-200 The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
151-200 Tsinghua University
151-200 University Libre Bruxelles
151-200 University of Bern
151-200 University of Buenos Aires
151-200 University of Gothenburg
151-200 University of Hamburg
151-200 University of Illinois at Chicago
151-200 University of Kiel
151-200 University of Koeln
151-200 University of Leeds
151-200 University of Mainz
151-200 University of Maryland, Baltimore
151-200 University of Miami
151-200 University of Milan
151-200 University of Nebraska – Lincoln
151-200 University of Padua
151-200 University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5)
151-200 University of Southampton
151-200 University of Tennessee – Knoxville
151-200 University of Tsukuba
151-200 University of Tuebingen
151-200 University of Vienna
151-200 University of Warwick
151-200 University of Waterloo
151-200 University of Wuerzburg
151-200 Virginia Commonwealth University
151-200 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
151-200 Zhejiang University
201-300 Autonomous University of Madrid
201-300 Brandeis University
201-300 Charles University in Prague
201-300 City University of Hong Kong
201-300 Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
201-300 Complutense University of Madrid
201-300 Dalhousie University
201-300 Delft University of Technology
201-300 Dresden University of Technology
201-300 Florida State University
201-300 Fudan University
201-300 King Saud University
201-300 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
201-300 Lancaster University
201-300 Laval University
201-300 Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge
201-300 Macquarie University
201-300 Medical University of Vienna
201-300 Nanjing University
201-300 Nanyang Technological University
201-300 National Cheng Kung University
201-300 National Tsing Hua University
201-300 Newcastle University
201-300 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
201-300 Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)
201-300 Polytechnic Institute of Milan
201-300 Queen Mary, U. of London
201-300 Queen’s University
201-300 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
201-300 Royal Institute of Technology
201-300 RWTH Aachen University
201-300 Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa
201-300 Simon Fraser University
201-300 State University of Campinas
201-300 State University of New York at Buffalo
201-300 Sungkyunkwan University
201-300 Technical University of Berlin
201-300 The George Washington University
201-300 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
201-300 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
201-300 The University of Adelaide
201-300 The University of Alabama at Birmingham
201-300 The University of Calgary
201-300 The University of Connecticut – Storrs
201-300 The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque
201-300 The University of Reading
201-300 The University of Western Ontario
201-300 Thomas Jefferson University
201-300 Trinity College Dublin
201-300 Umea University
201-300 University of Aberdeen
201-300 University of Antwerp
201-300 University of Barcelona
201-300 University of Bergen
201-300 University of Bochum
201-300 University of Bologna
201-300 University of Cape Town
201-300 University of Central Florida
201-300 University of Cincinnati
201-300 University of Colorado at Denver
201-300 University of Duesseldorf
201-300 University of Durham
201-300 University of East Anglia
201-300 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
201-300 University of Exeter
201-300 University of Florence
201-300 University of Guelph
201-300 University of Houston
201-300 University of Innsbruck
201-300 University of Kansas – Lawrence
201-300 University of Karlsruhe
201-300 University of Kentucky
201-300 University of Lausanne
201-300 University of Leicester
201-300 University of Leipzig
201-300 University of Liege
201-300 University of Lorraine
201-300 University of Maastricht
201-300 University of Manitoba
201-300 University of Marburg
201-300 University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
201-300 University of Missouri – Columbia
201-300 University of Montpellier 2
201-300 University of Notre Dame
201-300 University of Oregon
201-300 University of Otago
201-300 University of Ottawa
201-300 University of Paris Dauphine (Paris 9)
201-300 University of Saskatchewan
201-300 University of Science and Technology of China
201-300 University of South Carolina – Columbia
201-300 University of South Florida
201-300 University of Southern Denmark
201-300 University of St Andrews
201-300 University of Stuttgart
201-300 University of Turin
201-300 University of York
201-300 Washington State University – Pullman
201-300 Yeshiva University
201-300 Yonsei University
301-400 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
301-400 Autonomous University of Barcelona
301-400 Bar-Ilan University
301-400 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
301-400 Brigham Young University
301-400 Chalmers University of Technology
301-400 Chang Gung University
301-400 China Agricultural University
301-400 City University of New York City College
301-400 Clemson University
301-400 Drexel University
301-400 Ecole Polytechnique
301-400 Eindhoven University of Technology
301-400 Eotvos Lorand University
301-400 Federal University of Minas Gerais
301-400 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
301-400 Flinders Universite
301-400 Georgetown University
301-400 Griffith University
301-400 Hanyang University
301-400 Hiroshima University
301-400 Huazhong University of Science and Technology
301-400 Indian Institute of Science
301-400 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
301-400 Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution – Paris
301-400 Jagiellonian University
301-400 James Cook University
301-400 Jilin University
301-400 Kanazawa University
301-400 Kansas State University
301-400 Keio University
301-400 King Abdulaziz University
301-400 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
301-400 Kobe University
301-400 Korea University
301-400 Linkoping University
301-400 Medical University of South Carolina
301-400 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
301-400 National Chiao Tung University
301-400 Northeastern University
301-400 Okayama University
301-400 Pohang University of Science and Technology
301-400 Polytechnic University of Valencia
301-400 Queen’s University Belfast
301-400 Saint Louis University
301-400 San Diego State University
301-400 Sao Paulo State University
301-400 Shandong University
301-400 Sichuan University
301-400 State University of New York at Albany
301-400 State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
301-400 Stockholm School of Economics
301-400 Sun Yat-sen University
301-400 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
301-400 Swinburne University of Technology
301-400 Syracuse University
301-400 Technical University Darmstadt
301-400 Temple University
301-400 The University of Dundee
301-400 The University of Montana – Missoula
301-400 The University of Texas at Dallas
301-400 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
301-400 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
301-400 Tokyo Medical and Dental University
301-400 Tulane University
301-400 University College Cork
301-400 University College Dublin
301-400 University of Alaska – Fairbanks
301-400 University of Bath
301-400 University of Bordeaux 1
301-400 University of Genova
301-400 University of Giessen
301-400 University of Halle-Wittenberg
301-400 University of Konstanz
301-400 University of Naples Federico II
301-400 University of Nebraska Medical Center
301-400 University of New Hampshire – Durham
301-400 University of Newcastle
301-400 University of Oklahoma – Norman
301-400 University of Oulu
301-400 University of Porto
301-400 University of Regensburg
301-400 University of Rhode Island
301-400 University of Roma – Tor Vergata
301-400 University of Tasmania
301-400 University of Tehran
301-400 University of the Basque Country
301-400 University of the Witwatersrand
301-400 University of Turku
301-400 University of Twente
301-400 University of Ulm
301-400 University of Valencia
301-400 University of Vermont
301-400 University of Victoria
301-400 University of Warsaw
301-400 University of Wollongong
301-400 Wake Forest University
301-400 Waseda University
301-400 Wayne State University
301-400 Xian Jiao Tong University
401-500 Auburn University
401-500 Beihang University
401-500 Beijing Normal University
401-500 Boston College
401-500 Cairo University
401-500 Carleton University
401-500 Catholic University of Chile
401-500 Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
401-500 Central South University
401-500 Chiba University
401-500 China Medical University
401-500 Curtin University of Technology
401-500 Dalian University of Technology
401-500 Ecole National Superieure Mines – Paris
401-500 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
401-500 Harbin Institute of Technology
401-500 Istanbul University
401-500 Kent State University
401-500 Kyung Hee University
401-500 Kyungpook National University
401-500 La Trobe University
401-500 Lanzhou University
401-500 Lehigh University
401-500 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
401-500 Massey University
401-500 Medical College of Wisconsin
401-500 Medical University of Graz
401-500 Medical University of Innsbruck
401-500 Montana State University – Bozeman
401-500 Nagasaki University
401-500 Nankai University
401-500 Nara Institute of Science and Technology
401-500 National Central University
401-500 National Sun Yat-Sen University
401-500 National Yang Ming University
401-500 Niigata University
401-500 Peking Union Medical College
401-500 Polytechnic University of Turin
401-500 Pusan National University
401-500 Saint Petersburg State University
401-500 South China University of Technology
401-500 Southeast University
401-500 Southern Methodist University
401-500 Swansea Univ
401-500 Technical University of Braunschweig
401-500 Technical University of Lisbon
401-500 Texas Tech University
401-500 The Open University
401-500 The University of Texas at San Antonio
401-500 The University of Tokushima
401-500 Tianjin University
401-500 Tilburg University
401-500 Tongji University
401-500 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
401-500 University of Bari
401-500 University of Bayreuth
401-500 University of Belgrade
401-500 University of Bielefeld
401-500 University of Bremen
401-500 University of Canterbury
401-500 University of Chile
401-500 University of Duisburg-Essen
401-500 University of Eastern Finland
401-500 University of Essex
401-500 University of Ferrara
401-500 University of Granada
401-500 University of Graz
401-500 University of Hannover
401-500 University of Jena
401-500 University of Jyvaskyla
401-500 University of KwaZulu-Natal
401-500 University of Lille 1
401-500 University of Lisbon
401-500 University of Ljubljana
401-500 University of Louisville
401-500 University of Malaya
401-500 University of Milan – Bicocca
401-500 University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
401-500 University of Palermo
401-500 University of Parma
401-500 University of Perugia
401-500 University of Pompeu Fabra
401-500 University of Quebec
401-500 University of Rennes 1
401-500 University of Sherbrooke
401-500 University of Surrey
401-500 University of Szeged
401-500 University of Technology, Sydney
401-500 University of Tromso
401-500 University of Vigo
401-500 University of Wyoming
401-500 University of Zagreb
401-500 University of Zaragoza
401-500 Utah State University
401-500 Victoria University of Wellington
401-500 Vienna University of Technology
401-500 Vrije University Brussel
401-500 Wuhan University
401-500 Xiamen University
401-500 York University