| Rank | Date of registration | Domain | Registered to |
| 0 | | darpa.edu | DARPA |
| 1 | | berkeley.edu | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1 | | cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1 | | purdue.edu | Purdue University |
| 1 | | rice.edu | Rice University |
| 1 | | ucla.edu | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 6 | | rutgers.edu | Rutgers University |
| 7 | | mit.edu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8 | | harvard.edu | Harvard University |
| 9 | | columbia.edu | Columbia University |
| 10 | | cornell.edu | Cornell University |
| 11 | | uiuc.edu | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| 12 | | udel.edu | University of Delaware |
| 13 | | umd.edu | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 14 | | utexas.edu | University of Texas at Austin |
| 15 | | usc.edu | University of Southern California |
| 16 | | wisc.edu | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 16 | | uci.edu | University of California, Irvine |
| 18 | | stanford.edu | Stanford University |
| 19 | | umich.edu | University of Michigan |
| 20 | | ucsd.edu | University of California, San Diego |
| 21 | | caltech.edu | California Institute of Technology |
| 22 | | arizona.edu | University of Arizona |
| 23 | | ucsf.edu | University of California, San Francisco |
| 24 | | dartmouth.edu | Dartmouth College |
| 24 | | indiana.edu | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 24 | | okstate.edu | Oklahoma State University |
| 24 | | unlv.edu | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| 24 | | wfu.edu | Wake Forest University |
| 24 | | wright.edu | Wright State University |
| 30 | | isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute |
| 31 | | ucdavis.edu | University of California, Davis |
| 31 | | uta.edu | University of Texas at Arlington |
| 31 | | virginia.edu | University of Virginia |
| 34 | | ufl.edu | University of Florida |
| 34 | | bu.edu | Boston University |
| 34 | | rpi.edu | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 34 | | umass.edu | University of Massachusetts |
| 34 | | northeastern.edu | Northeastern University |
| 34 | | usl.edu | University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) 1960~1999, then: University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| 40 | | gatech.edu | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 40 | | toronto.edu | University of Toronto |
| 40 | | sju.edu | Saint Joseph's University |
| 40 | | uab.edu | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 44 | | carleton.edu | Carleton College |
| 44 | | duke.edu | Duke University |
| 44 | | upenn.edu | University of Pennsylvania |
| 44 | | emory.edu | Emory University |
| 44 | | bgsu.edu | Bowling Green State University |
| 44 | | colorado.edu | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 50 | | unc.edu | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 51 | | usd.edu | University of South Dakota |
| 51 | | uwp.edu | University of Wisconsin–Parkside |
| 51 | | wellesley.edu | Wellesley College |
| 51 | | wku.edu | Western Kentucky University |
| 55 | | psu.edu | Pennsylvania State University |
| 56 | | brown.edu | Brown University |
| 56 | | unm.edu | University of New Mexico |
| 58 | | syr.edu | Syracuse University |
| 58 | | depaul.edu | DePaul University |
| 60 | | washington.edu | University of Washington |
| 60 | | wcslc.edu | Westminster College |
| 62 | | moravian.edu | Moravian College |
| 62 | | unt.edu | University of North Texas |
| 62 | | usf.edu | University of South Florida |
| 62 | | williams.edu | Williams College |
| 66 | | merit.edu | Merit Network |
| 67 | | nyu.edu | New York University |
| 68 | | rochester.edu | University of Rochester |
| 69 | | unh.edu | University of New Hampshire |
| 69 | | ucf.edu | University of Central Florida |
| 69 | | hawaii.edu | University of Hawaii |
| 69 | | csufresno.edu | California State University, Fresno |
| 73 | | georgetown.edu | Georgetown University |
| 73 | | muskingum.edu | Muskingum University |
| 73 | | odu.edu | Old Dominion University |
| 76 | | usma.edu | United [States Military Academy] |
| 77 | | clarkson.edu | Clarkson University |
| 78 | | oberlin.edu | Oberlin College |
| 78 | | ohiou.edu | Ohio University |
| 78 | | unr.edu | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 81 | | utah.edu | University of Utah |
| 82 | | byu.edu | Brigham Young University |
| 82 | | lsu.edu | Louisiana State University |
| 84 | | umn.edu | University of Minnesota |
| 85 | | ucsc.edu | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 86 | | bsu.edu | Ball State University |
| 86 | | csuchico.edu | California State University, Chico |
| 86 | | kent.edu | Kent State University |
| 86 | | clemson.edu | Clemson University |
| 90 | | albany.edu | University at Albany |
| 91 | | whoi.edu | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 92 | | mu.edu | Marquette University |
| 93 | | yale.edu | Yale University |
| 94 | | jhu.edu | Johns Hopkins University |
| 95 | | rockefeller.edu | The Rockefeller University |
| 96 | | princeton.edu | Princeton University |
| 97 | | yu.edu | Yeshiva University |
| 98 | | wsu.edu | Washington State University |
| 98 | | wwu.edu | Western Washington University |
| 98 | | uvm.edu | University of Vermont |
| 98 | | tulane.edu | Tulane University |