43 of the best engineering schools are in the US. However, in per capita terms the US are below the median, at the 11th rank. The shining star is Singapore with a ratio of 44.0, or 3 times the median. Further to Singapore, the presence of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India and China in the top 100 list provides evidence of the growing role of Asian countries in the engineering realm.
100 Top World-class Universities per Capita | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Singapore | 2 | 4.54 | 44.0 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.16 | 41.9 |
| Sweden | 3 | 9.20 | 32.6 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.54 | 26.5 |
| Belgium | 2 | 10.50 | 19.0 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.46 | 18.3 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 16.48 | 18.2 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 23.05 | 17.4 |
| Canada | 5 | 33.46 | 14.9 |
| Australia | 3 | 21.16 | 14.2 |
| USA | 43 | 311.75 | 13.8 |
| UK | 8 | 61.27 | 13.1 |
| Korea | 3 | 48.54 | 6.2 |
| Japan | 5 | 127.87 | 3.9 |
| France | 2 | 62.23 | 3.2 |
| Italy | 1 | 58.99 | 1.7 |
| Germany | 1 | 82.45 | 1.2 |
| China | 7 | 1,343.93 | 0.5 |
| India | 2 | 1,203.25 | 0.2 |
| Median | 3 | 14.2 | |
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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
