The academic ranking of world universities in computer science in 2011, albeit acknowledging the supremacy of North America, displays a reshuffling of the top positions among America, Europe and the Far East . The United States place 51 universities in the list. Canada and China place 6 each, and Hong Kong, Israel, Taiwan and the United Kingdom 5 each. Netherlands with 3 and Belgium and Singapore with 2 each complete the top 10.
Globally, North America takes 57 slots, Asia and Pacific 21, and Europe 17. The redistribution of positions is made clearer by the per capita score. The top 5 are Israel (score of 67.7), Hong Kong (66.8), Singapore (43.1), Switzerland (26.3) and Taiwan (21.7).
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 1 | 21.6 | 4.6 |
| Belgium | 2 | 10.5 | 19.0 |
| Canada | 6 | 34.0 | 17.6 |
| China | 6 | 1,359.1 | 0.4 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.5 | 18.2 |
| Germany | 1 | 82.3 | 1.2 |
| Greece | 1 | 11.2 | 8.9 |
| Hong Kong, China | 5 | 7.5 | 66.8 |
| Israel | 5 | 7.4 | 67.7 |
| Italy | 1 | 59.1 | 1.7 |
| Japan | 1 | 127.6 | 0.8 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 16.5 | 18.2 |
| Norway | 1 | 4.8 | 20.8 |
| Singapore | 2 | 4.6 | 43.1 |
| Korea, Rep. of | 1 | 48.8 | 2.0 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.6 | 26.3 |
| Taiwan, China | 5 | 23.1 | 21.7 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 61.8 | 8.1 |
| United States | 51 | 317.6 | 16.1 |
| Median | 2 | 17.6 | |
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Rank¹ | Institution | Country | Total Score |
| 1 | Stanford University | United States | 100 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 92.8 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 83.9 |
| 4 | Princeton University | United States | 77.2 |
| 5 | Harvard University | United States | 76.1 |
| 6 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 71.3 |
| 7 | Cornell University | United States | 67.6 |
| 8 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 65.2 |
| 9 | University of Southern California | United States | 63.2 |
| 10 | University of Toronto | Canada | 62.7 |
| 11 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 61.4 |
| 11 | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel | 61.4 |
| 13 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 61.1 |
| 14 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 60.2 |
| 15 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 59 |
| 16 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 57.7 |
| 17 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | United States | 56.7 |
| 18 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | 56 |
| 19 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 55.6 |
| 20 | University of Washington | United States | 54.8 |
| 21 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong, China | 54.2 |
| 22 | Columbia University | United States | 54.1 |
| 22 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 54.1 |
| 24 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 53.2 |
| 25 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | 52.7 |
| 26 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 52.5 |
| 27 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 51.2 |
| 28 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 50.6 |
| 29 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 49.7 |
| 30 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 49.3 |
| 30 | Yale University | United States | 49.3 |
| 32 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan, China | 48.7 |
| 33 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 48.5 |
| 34 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 48.1 |
| 35 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 47.9 |
| 36 | Duke University | United States | 47.4 |
| 37 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | United States | 47.1 |
| 38 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States | 46.9 |
| 39 | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan, China | 46.7 |
| 40 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | 46.6 |
| 41 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 46.3 |
| 41 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 46.3 |
| 43 | University of California, Davis | United States | 46 |
| 43 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States | 46 |
| 45 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 45.6 |
| 46 | Tsinghua University | China | 45.3 |
| 47 | University of Virginia | United States | 45.1 |
| 48 | Northwestern University | United States | 44.9 |
| 49 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 44.6 |
| 50 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 44.5 |
| 51-75 | Arizona State University - Tempe | United States | |
| 51-75 | Brown University | United States | |
| 51-75 | Ghent University | Belgium | |
| 51-75 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | |
| 51-75 | National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan, China | |
| 51-75 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | |
| 51-75 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 51-75 | New York University | United States | |
| 51-75 | Polytechnic University of Turin | Italy | |
| 51-75 | Rice University | United States | |
| 51-75 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | |
| 51-75 | Technical University Munich | Germany | |
| 51-75 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong, China | |
| 51-75 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | |
| 51-75 | University of Alberta | Canada | |
| 51-75 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | |
| 51-75 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Florida | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Houston | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Montreal | Canada | |
| 51-75 | University of Notre Dame | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Oslo | Norway | |
| 51-75 | University of Utah | United States | |
| 51-75 | Zhejiang University | China | |
| 76-100 | Bar-Ilan University | Israel | |
| 76-100 | Boston University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium | |
| 76-100 | Harbin Institute of Technology | China | |
| 76-100 | McGill University | Canada | |
| 76-100 | Monash University | Australia | |
| 76-100 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece | |
| 76-100 | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | Taiwan, China | |
| 76-100 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan, China | |
| 76-100 | North Carolina State University - Raleigh | United States | |
| 76-100 | Northeastern University | China | |
| 76-100 | Peking University | China | |
| 76-100 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | |
| 76-100 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne | Switzerland | |
| 76-100 | Texas A&M University - College Station | United States | |
| 76-100 | The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | United Kingdom | |
| 76-100 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | |
| 76-100 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | |
| 76-100 | University of Arizona | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | |
| 76-100 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Waterloo | Canada | |
| 76-100 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | |
| 76-100 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | |
| ¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. | |||
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
