World 100 top universities 2011 | natural sciences and mathematics

Scatter chart showing the academic ranking of world universities in natural sciences and mathematics in 2011. By number of universities, the United States come first with 52 in the top 100. Follow Germany and the United Kingdom with 8 each, and Japan with 7. However, by number of universities per capita (per million inhabitants times 100), Israel is the leader with an index of 54.2, or 5.6 times the median (9.6). Switzerland has a score of 39.5, Denmark 18.2, the United States 16.4, and the United Kingdom 13.

The academic ranking of world universities in natural sciences and mathematics in 2011is led by the United States with 52 universities in the top 100, in spite of having lost 2 universities since 2010. Behind, follow, with a big gap, Germany and the United Kingdom, each with 8 universities in the list. Japan is fourth with 7. Below, the list provides the names of the institutions.

Nevertheless, in per capita terms, a bunch of small industrialized nations grab the top ranks and place themselves above the average (red line). Israel scores 54.2, or 5.6 the median, being followed by Switzerland with a score of 39.5, and Denmark with 18.2. The US score 16.4 and also find themselves above the average, while the UK, with an index of 13 is right on average. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia represent the only non-European or non-North American countries in the list.

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics - 2011 By Nation Per Capita
Country	Number	Population	Per capita
Country	Number	Million	(Nbr/Millionx100)
Australia	1	21.6	4.6
Canada	2	34.0	5.9
Denmark	1	5.5	18.2
France	6	62.8	9.6
Germany	8	82.3	9.7
Israel	4	7.4	54.2
Italy	2	59.1	3.4
Japan	7	127.6	5.5
Netherlands	2	16.5	12.1
Russia	1	139.6	0.7
Korea, Rep. of	1	48.8	2.0
Sweden	1	9.3	10.8
Switzerland	3	7.6	39.5
Taiwan, China	1	23.1	4.3
United Kingdom	8	61.8	13.0
United States	52	317.6	16.4
Median	2		9.6

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics - 2011
Rank¹	Institution	Country	Total Score
1	Harvard University	United States	100
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	95.7
3	Princeton University	United States	92.9
4	California Institute of Technology	United States	91.5
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.8
6	Stanford University	United States	90.6
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	89.5
8	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	73.3
9	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	72.6
10	The University of Tokyo	Japan	71.5
11	Columbia University	United States	71
12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	70.7
13	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	69.3
14	Cornell University	United States	68.5
15	University of Chicago	United States	67.9
16	Kyoto University	Japan	67.6
17	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)	France	67.4
18	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	65.7
19	University of California, San Diego	United States	65.6
20	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States	64.8
21	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France	63.5
22	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States	62.8
23	University of Pennsylvania	United States	61.9
23	University of Washington	United States	61.9
25	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	61.6
26	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom	61.5
27	The Johns Hopkins University	United States	61.1
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	60.9
29	Yale University	United States	59.6
30	Northwestern University	United States	59.3
31	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	58
32	University of California, Irvine	United States	57.3
33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	56.9
34	University of Toronto	Canada	56.4
35	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	55.8
36	Technical University Munich	Germany	55.5
37	University of Geneva	Switzerland	55.4
38	Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris	France	55
39	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States	54.7
40	Utrecht University	Netherlands	54.3
41	Tohoku University	Japan	53.9
42	Texas A&M University - College Station	United States	53.8
43	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States	53.4
44	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States	52.3
45	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	52.2
46	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States	52.1
47	Rice University	United States	51.6
47	The Australian National University	Australia	51.6
47	University of California, Davis	United States	51.6
50	University of Munich	Germany	51.5
51-75	Boston University	United States
51-75	Duke University	United States
51-75	Moscow State University	Russia
51-75	Nagoya University	Japan
51-75	Osaka University	Japan
51-75	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States
51-75	Stockholm University	Sweden
51-75	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
51-75	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
51-75	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
51-75	University College London	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Arizona	United States
51-75	University of Bonn	Germany
51-75	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
51-75	University of British Columbia	Canada
51-75	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
51-75	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
51-75	University of Durham	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Florida	United States
51-75	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States
51-75	University of Heidelberg	Germany
51-75	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States
51-75	University of Southern California	United States
51-75	University of Strasbourg	France
51-75	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
76-100	Arizona State University - Tempe	United States
76-100	Brown University	United States
76-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
76-100	Hokkaido University	Japan
76-100	Indiana University Bloomington	United States
76-100	Iowa State University	United States
76-100	Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1)	France
76-100	Leiden University	Netherlands
76-100	National Taiwan University	Taiwan, China
76-100	New York University	United States
76-100	Seoul National University	South Korea
76-100	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne	Switzerland
76-100	Tel Aviv University	Israel
76-100	University of California, Riverside	United States
76-100	University of Delaware	United States
76-100	University of Frankfurt	Germany
76-100	University of Houston	United States
76-100	University of Mainz	Germany
76-100	University of Muenster	Germany
76-100	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
76-100	University of Padua	Italy
76-100	University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7)	France
76-100	University of Pisa	Italy
76-100	University of Rochester	United States
76-100	University of Wuerzburg	Germany
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai, UN Population Division, and CIA - The World Factbook.

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Academic Ranking of World Universitiesin Natural Sciences and Mathematics - 2011By Nation Per Capita

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Academic Ranking of World Universities
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Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Natural Sciences and Mathematics - 2011