With 50 universities in the 2013 list of the world 100 best universities in computer science, the United States enjoy an unquestionable supremacy. The United Kingdom and Canada follow far behind, with respectively 8 and 6 institutions.
In per capita terms, the hierarchy places in the 5 top places the following nations : Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland and Denmark, all with indexes well above the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Computer Science | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Austria | 1 | 8.5 | 11.8 |
| Belgium | 1 | 10.6 | 9.5 |
| Brazil | 1 | 205.8 | 0.5 |
| Canada | 6 | 34.6 | 17.3 |
| China | 4 | 1,374.1 | 0.3 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.5 | 18.2 |
| Germany | 2 | 82.1 | 2.4 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 7.6 | 65.6 |
| India | 2 | 1,270.1 | 0.2 |
| Iran | 1 | 77.3 | 1.3 |
| Israel | 4 | 7.6 | 52.7 |
| Italy | 1 | 59.1 | 1.7 |
| Korea, Rep. of | 1 | 49.0 | 2.0 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 16.6 | 18.1 |
| Singapore | 2 | 4.7 | 42.3 |
| Spain | 1 | 45.7 | 2.2 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.6 | 26.2 |
| Taiwan | 4 | 23.3 | 17.2 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 62.3 | 12.8 |
| United States | 50 | 323.4 | 15.5 |
| Median | 2 | 12.3 | |
| Average | 5 | 15.9 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
