World 100 top universities 2011

XY scatter chart showing the academic ranking of world universities in physics in 2011. The United States have 46 universities in the top 100 list. The following 4 nations, are the United Kingdom (9), Japan (7), Germany (6) and Canada (5). The per capita index boosts Israel to the top (score of 40.6), followed by Switzerland (39.5), the Netherlands (24.2), Sweden (21.5) and Finland (18.7). The per capita score of the United States is the same as the median : 14.5.

The academic ranking of world universities in physics in 2011 places in the top 5 positions the United States (46 in the top 100 list), the United Kingdom (9), Japan (7), Germany (6) and Canada (5). North America and Europe dominate the stage, with respectively 51 and 35 universities in the list.

The score per capita brings Israel, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland to the top 5 positions with scores of respectively 41, 40, 24. 22 and 19. The United States, despite their absolute weight, rank 9th with an index of 14.5, equal to the median.

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Physics - 2011
Country	Number	Population	Per capita
Country	Number	Million	(Nbr/Millionx100)
Australia	3	21.6	13.9
Canada	5	34.0	14.7
Denmark	1	5.5	18.2
Finland	1	5.3	18.7
France	4	62.8	6.4
Germany	6	82.3	7.3
Israel	3	7.4	40.6
Italy	4	59.1	6.8
Japan	7	127.6	5.5
Netherlands	4	16.5	24.2
Korea, Rep. of	1	48.8	2.0
Spain	1	45.3	2.2
Sweden	2	9.3	21.5
Switzerland	3	7.6	39.5
United Kingdom	9	61.8	14.6
United States	46	317.6	14.5
Median	3.5		14.5

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Physics - 2011
Rank¹	Institution	Country	Total Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100
2	Harvard University	United States	99.2
3	California Institute of Technology	United States	97.7
4	Princeton University	United States	97
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	95.8
6	Stanford University	United States	92.9
7	The University of Tokyo	Japan	82
8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	81.8
9	University of Chicago	United States	76.6
10	Cornell University	United States	76.2
11	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	71.9
12	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	69.7
13	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom	68.5
14	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	66.9
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	66.5
16	Columbia University	United States	64.6
17	University of Pennsylvania	United States	64.3
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	64.2
18	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	64.2
20	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)	France	64
21	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States	63.5
22	University of California, San Diego	United States	61.2
23	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States	60.1
24	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	59.8
25	University of Munich	Germany	59.6
26	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States	58.6
27	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	58.3
28	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	58.2
28	University of Washington	United States	58.2
30	Kyoto University	Japan	57.1
31	Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris	France	56.7
32	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	56.4
33	The Johns Hopkins University	United States	56.2
33	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	56.2
35	University of Arizona	United States	55.6
36	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States	55.4
37	University College London	United Kingdom	55
38	University of California, Irvine	United States	54.9
39	University of Durham	United Kingdom	54.6
40	Tohoku University	Japan	53.9
41	University of Frankfurt	Germany	53.8
41	University of Toronto	Canada	53.8
43	University of Heidelberg	Germany	53
44	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States	53
45	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States	52.7
46	Osaka University	Japan	51.5
47	Northwestern University	United States	51.3
47	Technical University Munich	Germany	51.3
47	University of Rochester	United States	51.3
50	The Australian National University	Australia	51
51-75	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
51-75	Duke University	United States
51-75	Iowa State University	United States
51-75	Leiden University	Netherlands
51-75	McGill University	Canada
51-75	McMaster University	Canada
51-75	Michigan State University	United States
51-75	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
51-75	Seoul National University	South Korea
51-75	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne	Switzerland
51-75	Tel Aviv University	Israel
51-75	Texas A&M University - College Station	United States
51-75	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
51-75	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
51-75	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
51-75	University of Bonn	Germany
51-75	University of British Columbia	Canada
51-75	University of Geneva	Switzerland
51-75	University of Houston	United States
51-75	University of Mainz	Germany
51-75	University of Padua	Italy
51-75	University of Roma - La Sapienza	Italy
51-75	Utrecht University	Netherlands
51-75	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
51-75	Yale University	United States
76-100	Arizona State University - Tempe	United States
76-100	Boston University	United States
76-100	Brown University	United States
76-100	Florida State University	United States
76-100	Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1)	France
76-100	Nagoya University	Japan
76-100	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
76-100	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
76-100	Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa	Italy
76-100	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
76-100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
76-100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
76-100	University of California, Davis	United States
76-100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
76-100	University of Florida	United States
76-100	University of Helsinki	Finland
76-100	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
76-100	University of Melbourne	Australia
76-100	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
76-100	University of Pisa	Italy
76-100	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	United States
76-100	University of Tsukuba	Japan
76-100	University of Valencia	Spain
76-100	University of Victoria	Canada
76-100	Uppsala University	Sweden
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division

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Academic Ranking of World Universitiesin Physics - 2011

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Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Physics - 2011

Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Physics - 2011