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The USA with 71 top-ranked universities and a 22.35 per capita index (the median index is 18.24) is the most prominent player in the field of social sciences, well above the average (red line) and the median and with an overwhelming 71% of the top 100 schools.
It should not surprise that US ideology tells right and wrong in the economic and social sciences arenas across the world. The issue is that such a domineering position becomes a potential killer of genuine scientific thought. The guardians of the orthodoxy cannot tolerate the slightest deviation. Scientists eager to make a fruitful and rewarding career quickly understand which "scientific church" to attend.
100 Top Universities per Capita | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 2 | 21.51 | 9.30 |
| Belgium | 1 | 10.70 | 9.35 |
| Canada | 7 | 33.89 | 20.66 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.48 | 18.24 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 7.07 | 14.15 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.29 | 27.45 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 16.65 | 24.02 |
| Norway | 1 | 4.86 | 20.60 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7.59 | 13.17 |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 61.90 | 14.54 |
| United States | 71 | 317.64 | 22.35 |
| median | 2 | 18.24 | |
Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division