Top 100 universities by subject by region | by country | Top 100 universities by subject by region | by country |
The 2014 ranking of world top 100 universities by subject matter and by region, set aside the expectable dominance of North America's academia — mainly the United States — in all 5 disciplines, is rocked by the emergence of Asian universities particularly in Chemistry and Computer science, in which disciplines Europe is left lagging behind. Such a performance is the doing of China that places in the top 100 fourteen universities in Mathematics, fourteen in chemistry, and fifteen in Computer science, at the second rank just behind America.
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Region | Mathematics | Physics | Chemistry | Computer Science | Economics/Business | |||||
Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | |
| North America | 13 | 44 | 14 | 43 | 14 | 45 | 17 | 55 | 17 | 73 |
| Europe | 5 | 31 | 5 | 42 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 20 |
| Australasia | 2 | 24 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 24 | 7 | |
| Latin America | 1 | |||||||||
| Africa | ||||||||||
| Total | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 |
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Country | Mathematics | Physics | Chemistry | Computer Science | Economics/Business | |||||
Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | Top 20 | Top 100 | |
| Australia | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Austria | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Belgium | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Brazil | 1 | |||||||||
| Canada | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||||
| China | 2 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 2 | |
| Denmark | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| France | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Germany | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |||
| India | 1 | |||||||||
| Israel | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Italy | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Japan | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Netherlands | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Norway | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Portugal | 1 | |||||||||
| Russia | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Singapore | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| South Korea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Switzerland | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| United Kingdom | 5 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| United States | 13 | 42 | 14 | 40 | 13 | 42 | 16 | 48 | 17 | 66 |
| Total | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 | 20 | 100 |
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.
