Unsurprisingly, the United States lead the 2014 academic ranking of the top 100 world universities in engineering, technology and computer science, with a total of 37 institutions, down from 42 in 2013, but with 14 in the top twenty slots. Asia/Oceania put a formidable show with 38 universities — of which 21 located in China. The Europeans claim 20 universities in the list, of which 3 in the top 20.
Singapore and Denmark are the best performers in per capita terms both with per capita indexes about 3 times the average (horizontal red line in the chart). Israel and Switzerland follow with indexes more than twice the average and the median values.
World top 100 Universities | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 4 | 23.6 | 16.9 |
| Belgium | 1 | 11.1 | 9.0 |
| Brazil | 1 | 202.0 | 0.5 |
| Canada | 4 | 35.5 | 11.3 |
| China | 21 | 1,393.8 | 1.5 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5.6 | 35.5 |
| France | 1 | 64.6 | 1.5 |
| Germany | 2 | 82.7 | 2.4 |
| Iran | 1 | 78.5 | 1.3 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.8 | 25.6 |
| Italy | 1 | 61.1 | 1.6 |
| Japan | 3 | 127.0 | 2.4 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 16.8 | 6.0 |
| Portugal | 1 | 10.6 | 9.4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 29.4 | 3.4 |
| Singapore | 2 | 5.5 | 36.3 |
| South Korea | 4 | 49.5 | 8.1 |
| Sweden | 2 | 9.6 | 20.8 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 8.2 | 24.5 |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 63.5 | 11.0 |
| United States | 37 | 322.6 | 11.5 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 9.0 | ||
| Average | 11.4 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai, UN Population Division.
