The academic ranking of world universities in economics / business in 2011 places 70 United States universities in the top 100 list. To complete the top ranked five nations, Canada follows with 9, the United Kingdom with 7, the Netherlands with 4, and France with 2. The low median (4.6) brings evidence of the skewness of the distribution, the United States rolling over the rest of the world.
The per capita score does not change significantly the absolute hierarchy. The United States (score of 22), Canada (26.4) and the Netherlands (24.2) are still in the top 5, although the ranking is headed by Israel (27.1) and includes Hong Kong (13.4).
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 1 | 21.6 | 4.6 |
| Canada | 9 | 34.0 | 26.4 |
| China | 1 | 1,359.1 | 0.1 |
| France | 2 | 62.8 | 3.2 |
| Germany | 1 | 82.3 | 1.2 |
| Hong Kong, China | 1 | 7.5 | 13.4 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.4 | 27.1 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 16.5 | 24.2 |
| Sweden | 1 | 9.3 | 10.8 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7.6 | 13.2 |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 61.8 | 11.3 |
| United States | 70 | 317.6 | 22.0 |
| Median | 1 | 4.6 | |
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Rank¹ | Institution | Country | Total Score |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100 |
| 2 | University of Chicago | United States | 91.2 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 83.8 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 77.7 |
| 5 | Columbia University | United States | 77 |
| 6 | Stanford University | United States | 76.2 |
| 7 | Princeton University | United States | 73.5 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 71.7 |
| 9 | Yale University | United States | 65.2 |
| 10 | New York University | United States | 64.4 |
| 11 | Northwestern University | United States | 62.5 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom | 60.3 |
| 13 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 59.6 |
| 14 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | 58.9 |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 58.4 |
| 16 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | United States | 58.2 |
| 17 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 54.3 |
| 18 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 53.9 |
| 19 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 53.4 |
| 20 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 52.9 |
| 21 | Arizona State University - Tempe | United States | 52.3 |
| 22 | Duke University | United States | 52 |
| 23 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 51.6 |
| 24 | Cornell University | United States | 50.1 |
| 25 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 49.9 |
| 26 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 48.6 |
| 27 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 48.3 |
| 28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 47.7 |
| 29 | University of Washington | United States | 47.4 |
| 30 | Dartmouth College | United States | 46 |
| 31 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | 45.9 |
| 32 | Michigan State University | United States | 45.8 |
| 33 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 45.7 |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | 45.5 |
| 35 | University of Southern California | United States | 45.3 |
| 36 | University of Rochester | United States | 44.6 |
| 36 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 44.6 |
| 38 | INSEAD | France | 44.3 |
| 39 | Texas A&M University - College Station | United States | 44.2 |
| 40 | Boston University | United States | 43.5 |
| 40 | University of South Carolina - Columbia | United States | 43.5 |
| 40 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 43.5 |
| 43 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 43.4 |
| 44 | The University of Texas at Dallas | United States | 43.3 |
| 45 | Erasmus University | Netherlands | 42.4 |
| 45 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong, China | 42.4 |
| 47 | George Mason University | United States | 41.9 |
| 47 | University of Toronto | Canada | 41.9 |
| 49 | The Johns Hopkins University | United States | 41.8 |
| 50 | Brown University | United States | 41.5 |
| 51-75 | Brigham Young University | United States | |
| 51-75 | California Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 51-75 | Emory University | United States | |
| 51-75 | Georgetown University | United States | |
| 51-75 | London Business School | United Kingdom | |
| 51-75 | McGill University | Canada | |
| 51-75 | McMaster University | Canada | |
| 51-75 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | |
| 51-75 | Rice University | United States | |
| 51-75 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | United States | |
| 51-75 | Simon Fraser University | Canada | |
| 51-75 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | |
| 51-75 | University College London | United Kingdom | |
| 51-75 | University of Alberta | Canada | |
| 51-75 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | |
| 51-75 | University of California, Irvine | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Florida | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Houston | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Miami | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Montreal | Canada | |
| 51-75 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Tilburg | Netherlands | |
| 51-75 | University of Utah | United States | |
| 51-75 | University of Virginia | United States | |
| 76-100 | Boston College | United States | |
| 76-100 | City University of New York - Baruch College | United States | |
| 76-100 | Clemson University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Ecole des hautes Etudes commerciales - Paris(HEC) | France | |
| 76-100 | Florida State University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 76-100 | Georgia State University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Iowa State University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Peking University | China | |
| 76-100 | Stockholm School of Economics | Sweden | |
| 76-100 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | |
| 76-100 | The University of Connecticut - Storrs | United States | |
| 76-100 | The University of Georgia | United States | |
| 76-100 | The University of Western Ontario | Canada | |
| 76-100 | University of Arizona | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Frankfurt | Germany | |
| 76-100 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | |
| 76-100 | University of Iowa | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Melbourne | Australia | |
| 76-100 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | |
| 76-100 | University of Oklahoma - Norman | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | |
| 76-100 | York University | Canada | |
| ¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. | |||
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
