Sixty-six percent of the world top 100 universities in economics / business are located in the United States. Two other Anglo-Saxon nations follow : the United Kingdom with 8 and Canada with 7. Year-on-year this group's position shrunk from 88 to 81 percent.
The per capita score allows some small countries to climb to the top of the ranking : Denmark and the Netherlands take the top two positions, with scores about three times the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Economics / Business | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 3 | 23.6 | 12.7 |
| Canada | 7 | 35.5 | 19.7 |
| China | 2 | 1,393.8 | 0.1 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5.6 | 35.5 |
| France | 1 | 64.6 | 1.5 |
| Germany | 1 | 82.7 | 1.2 |
| Israel | 1 | 7.8 | 12.8 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 16.8 | 29.8 |
| Norway | 1 | 5.1 | 19.6 |
| Singapore | 1 | 5.5 | 18.1 |
| Spain | 1 | 47.1 | 2.1 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8.2 | 12.3 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 63.5 | 12.6 |
| United States | 66 | 322.6 | 20.5 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 12.7 | ||
| Average | 14.2 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
