World 100 top universities 2011

XY scatter chart showing the academic ranking of world universities in chemistry in 2011. The United States place 45 universities in the list of top 100. Follow the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany with 8 each. China lists 5, the Netherlands and Austria 4 each, Canada 3, and Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Israel and Hong Kong 2 each.. In per capita terms, the top five scores are achieved by Israel and Hong Kong (27 each), Switzerland (26), the Netherlands (24) and Singapore (22).

The academic ranking of world universities in chemistry is headed by western and eastern heavy-weights in 2011. The top 5 nations are the United States with 45 universities listed, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom with 8 each, and China with 5. The per capita index displays a different hierarchy, placing in the top a bunch of small but highly developed countries. The top 5 are Israel and Hong Kong (score of 27), Switzerland (26), the Netherlands (24), and Singapore (22).

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Chemistry - 2011
Country	Number	Population	Per capita
Country	Number	Million	(Nbr/Millionx100)
Australia	4	21.6	18.5
Canada	3	34.0	8.8
China	5	1,359.1	0.4
Denmark	1	5.5	18.2
France	1	62.8	1.6
Germany	8	82.3	9.7
Hong Kong, China	2	7.5	26.7
India	1	1,237.0	0.1
Israel	2	7.4	27.1
Italy	2	59.1	3.4
Japan	8	127.6	6.3
Netherlands	4	16.5	24.2
Singapore	1	4.6	21.6
Spain	1	45.3	2.2
Sweden	2	9.3	21.5
Switzerland	2	7.6	26.3
United Kingdom	8	61.8	13.0
United States	45	317.6	14.2
Median	2		13.6

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Chemistry - 2011
Rank¹	Institution	Country	Total Score
1	Harvard University	United States	100
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	99.9
3	Stanford University	United States	95.1
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	94.9
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	87.6
6	California Institute of Technology	United States	84.9
7	Kyoto University	Japan	81.8
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	79
9	Northwestern University	United States	77.4
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	77.1
11	Columbia University	United States	75.6
12	The University of Tokyo	Japan	74.7
13	Technical University Munich	Germany	73.4
14	University of Strasbourg	France	71.5
15	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	71.3
16	University of California, San Diego	United States	71.2
17	University of Pennsylvania	United States	70.1
18	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	68.7
19	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States	67.5
20	Yale University	United States	67.2
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	65.6
22	University of California, Irvine	United States	65.4
23	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	65.2
23	University of Toronto	Canada	65.2
25	Cornell University	United States	64.9
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States	64.6
27	Rice University	United States	64.1
28	Tohoku University	Japan	63.9
29	University of Chicago	United States	63.1
30	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom	62.1
31	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	61.5
32	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	60.6
32	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States	60.6
34	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	60.1
34	University of Florida	United States	60.1
36	Nagoya University	Japan	59.7
37	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne	Switzerland	59.4
38	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	59.3
39	University of California, Davis	United States	59.2
39	University of Wuerzburg	Germany	59.2
41	Texas A&M University - College Station	United States	58.5
42	University of Southern California	United States	57.9
43	Utrecht University	Netherlands	56.3
44	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	55.6
45	Stockholm University	Sweden	55.5
46	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States	55.1
47	Iowa State University	United States	55
48	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States	54.4
49	Indian Institute of Science	India	54.2
49	Monash University	Australia	54.2
51-75	Emory University	United States
51-75	Indiana University Bloomington	United States
51-75	Kyushu University	Japan
51-75	Nanjing University	China
51-75	Osaka University	Japan
51-75	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States
51-75	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
51-75	The Johns Hopkins University	United States
51-75	The University of Georgia	United States
51-75	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China
51-75	University College London	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Bath	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Bologna	Italy
51-75	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
51-75	University of California, Riverside	United States
51-75	University of Florence	Italy
51-75	University of Goettingen	Germany
51-75	University of Groningen	Netherlands
51-75	University of Heidelberg	Germany
51-75	University of Muenster	Germany
51-75	University of Pittsburgh	United States
51-75	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Stuttgart	Germany
51-75	University of Utah	United States
51-75	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
76-100	Aarhus University	Denmark
76-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
76-100	Colorado State University	United States
76-100	Hokkaido University	Japan
76-100	Jilin University	China
76-100	Lund University	Sweden
76-100	Nankai University	China
76-100	National University of Singapore	Singapore
76-100	Peking University	China
76-100	State University of New York at Buffalo	United States
76-100	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
76-100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China
76-100	The University of Western Australia	Australia
76-100	University of British Columbia	Canada
76-100	University of Karlsruhe	Germany
76-100	University of New South Wales	Australia
76-100	University of Ottawa	Canada
76-100	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
76-100	University of Sydney	Australia
76-100	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	United States
76-100	University of Twente	Netherlands
76-100	University of Zaragoza	Spain
76-100	Wayne State University	United States
76-100	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
76-100	Zhejiang University	China
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division

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Academic Ranking of World Universitiesin Chemistry - 2011

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Academic Ranking of World Universitiesin Chemistry - 2011

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Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Chemistry - 2011

Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Chemistry - 2011