The academic ranking of world universities in mathematics in 2011 recognizes the supremacy of North America and Europe in the discipline, with respectively 56 and 31 universities in the top 100 list. The rest of the world can only place 13 institutions.
The score per capita shows the small countries overtaking the giant United States. Israel comes first (score of 40.6), closely followed by Hong Kong (40.1). The remaining 3 of the top 5 positions are taken by Switzerland (26.3), Denmark (18.2) and the United States (16.7).
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 2 | 21.6 | 9.3 |
| Austria | 1 | 8.5 | 11.8 |
| Belgium | 1 | 10.5 | 9.5 |
| Canada | 3 | 34.0 | 8.8 |
| China | 1 | 1,359.1 | 0.1 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.5 | 18.2 |
| France | 8 | 62.8 | 12.7 |
| Germany | 6 | 82.3 | 7.3 |
| Hong Kong, China | 3 | 7.5 | 40.1 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.4 | 40.6 |
| Italy | 3 | 59.1 | 5.1 |
| Japan | 3 | 127.6 | 2.4 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 16.5 | 6.1 |
| Russia | 1 | 139.6 | 0.7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 27.0 | 3.7 |
| Spain | 2 | 45.3 | 4.4 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.6 | 26.3 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 61.8 | 8.1 |
| United States | 53 | 317.6 | 16.7 |
| Median | 2 | 8.8 | |
Academic Ranking of World Universities | |||
Rank¹ | Institution | Country | Total Score |
| 1 | Princeton University | United States | 100 |
| 2 | Harvard University | United States | 93.1 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 91.2 |
| 4 | Stanford University | United States | 85.1 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 84.4 |
| 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 79.4 |
| 7 | Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 | France | 79.3 |
| 8 | University of Paris Sud (Paris 11) | France | 77.5 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 74.8 |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 74.5 |
| 11 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | 71.6 |
| 12 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | 68.8 |
| 13 | University of Chicago | United States | 67.3 |
| 14 | Texas A&M University - College Station | United States | 66.6 |
| 15 | New York University | United States | 66.5 |
| 16 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | United States | 65.3 |
| 17 | University of Washington | United States | 63.4 |
| 18 | University of Paris Dauphine (Paris 9) | France | 63.2 |
| 19 | Kyoto University | Japan | 61.7 |
| 20 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 61.5 |
| 21 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 61 |
| 22 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 60.8 |
| 23 | Columbia University | United States | 60.7 |
| 24 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | United States | 60.3 |
| 25 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 59.9 |
| 26 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 59.8 |
| 26 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 59.8 |
| 28 | Yale University | United States | 59.7 |
| 29 | Moscow State University | Russia | 59.4 |
| 30 | University of California, Davis | United States | 58.7 |
| 31 | Cornell University | United States | 58.5 |
| 32 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 57.7 |
| 33 | Northwestern University | United States | 57.4 |
| 34 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 56.3 |
| 35 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 56.2 |
| 36 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 56 |
| 37 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States | 55.8 |
| 38 | University of Bonn | Germany | 55.5 |
| 39 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 55.1 |
| 40 | The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | United Kingdom | 54.8 |
| 41 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 54.4 |
| 42 | Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris | France | 53.9 |
| 43 | University of Toronto | Canada | 53.8 |
| 44 | Duke University | United States | 53.6 |
| 45 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 53.4 |
| 46 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | 53.3 |
| 47 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | 53.2 |
| 47 | The Johns Hopkins University | United States | 53.2 |
| 49 | University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7) | France | 53 |
| 50 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 52.8 |
| 50 | University of Pisa | Italy | 52.8 |
| 52-75 | Aix Marseille University | France | |
| 52-75 | Autonomous University of Madrid | Spain | |
| 52-75 | Brown University | United States | |
| 52-75 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium | |
| 52-75 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | |
| 52-75 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | |
| 52-75 | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia | |
| 52-75 | North Carolina State University - Raleigh | United States | |
| 52-75 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | |
| 52-75 | Rice University | United States | |
| 52-75 | Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa | Italy | |
| 52-75 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany | |
| 52-75 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | |
| 52-75 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | |
| 52-75 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | |
| 52-75 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | |
| 52-75 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | |
| 52-75 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | |
| 52-75 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | |
| 52-75 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | |
| 52-75 | University of Southern California | United States | |
| 52-75 | University of Utah | United States | |
| 52-75 | University of Vienna | Austria | |
| 52-75 | Vanderbilt University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Boston University | United States | |
| 76-100 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany | |
| 76-100 | McGill University | Canada | |
| 76-100 | Peking University | China | |
| 76-100 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong, China | |
| 76-100 | University of Bielefeld | Germany | |
| 76-100 | University of British Columbia | Canada | |
| 76-100 | University of California, Irvine | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | |
| 76-100 | University of Delaware | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Florida | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Hannover | Germany | |
| 76-100 | University of Houston | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Iowa | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Kansas - Lawrence | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Melbourne | Australia | |
| 76-100 | University of Milan | Italy | |
| 76-100 | University of New South Wales | Australia | |
| 76-100 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | |
| 76-100 | University of Rennes 1 | France | |
| 76-100 | University of Tuebingen | Germany | |
| 76-100 | University of Valladolid | Spain | |
| 76-100 | University of Virginia | 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
