| Rang | Nationaler Spitzenreiter | Staat |
|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 3 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland |
| 11 | Peking University | China |
| 13 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 32 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 43 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | Germany |
| 51 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel |
| 57 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 61 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 63 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 69 | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 73 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 84 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 85 | Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6 | France |
| 87 | University of Münster | Germany |
| 89 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 96 | University of Göttingen | Germany |
| 99 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| Quelle: Nature Index Ranking 2016 |
