這種綜合排名計算方法類似於新南威爾士大學的ARTU (Aggragate Ranking of Top Universities), 就是把有關大學在各種排名中的位列序數求和取平均值後再排序。最終結果的科學有效性取決於底層排名方法的科學性、公平性、和權威性。作為參考，下麵表中列出了樓主所列的30個大學在ARTU中的世界排名以及1-30的排序。
| Ranking | College | ARWU | QS | THE | ARTU Rank |
| 1 | Stanford | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | Harvard | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | MIT | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Caltech | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 5 | Princeton | 6 | 16 | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | UChicago | 10 | 10 | 13 | 8 |
| 7 | Yale | 11 | 18 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | UCB | 5 | 27 | 8 | 11 |
| 9 | Columbia | 8 | 22 | 11 | 13 |
| 10 | Penn | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 |
| 11 | Cornell | 12 | 20 | 20 | 16 |
| 12 | JHU | 14 | 22 | 15 | 17 |
| 13 | Umich | 28 | 25 | 23 | 21 |
| 14 | UCLA | 13 | 44 | 21 | 22 |
| 15 | Northwestern | 30 | 32 | 26 | 25 |
| 16 | Duke | 31 | 50 | 25 | 29 |
| 16 | UCSD | 21 | 53 | 32 | 29 |
| 18 | CMU | 107 | 52 | 28 | 56 |
| 19 | UNC | 29 | 102 | 69 | 59 |
| 20 | WUSTL | 27 | 118 | 57 | 60 |
| 21 | Brown | 99 | 63 | 61 | 64 |
| 22 | USC | 53 | 134 | 65 | 71 |
| 23 | Emory | 118 | 155 | 82 | 101 |
| 24 | Vanderbilt | 64 | 199 | 98 | 104 |
| 25 | Rice | 123 | 100 | 147 | 111 |
| 26 | UF | 94 | 188 | 151 | 125 |
| 27 | UVA | 214 | 253 | 156 | 178 |
| 28 | Dartmouth | 379 | 205 | 123 | 199 |
| 29 | Notre Dame | 384 | 243 | 220 | 236 |
| 30 | Georgetown | 437 | 281 | 136 | 237 |
參考鏈接：https://research.unsw.edu.au/artu/
