The 2014 ranking of the top 100 social sciences universities looks like the membership list of an exclusive club, open only to a dozen club members. The United States preside with 63% of the slots, six shorter than in 2013, surrounded by two other Anglo-Saxon nations, Canada and the United Kingdom, each respectively with 9 and 6 universities in the list.
The per capita ranking is headed by Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia Norway and the United States. But in this field the gap of the top indexes to the average (red line) and the median is significantly narrower than in the other fields.
World top 100 universities in Social Science | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 5 | 23.6 | 21.2 |
| Belgium | 1 | 11.1 | 9.0 |
| Canada | 6 | 35.5 | 16.9 |
| China ² | 1 | 1,393.8 | 0.1 |
| Denmark | 3 | 5.6 | 53.2 |
| Israel | 1 | 7.8 | 12.8 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 16.8 | 47.6 |
| Norway | 1 | 5.1 | 19.6 |
| Singapore | 1 | 5.5 | 18.1 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8.2 | 12.3 |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 63.5 | 14.2 |
| United States | 63 | 322.6 | 19.5 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 17.5 | ||
| Average | 20.4 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
