The United States, with 40 institutions, sits at the top of the 2014 ranking of the world top 100 universities in physics. European countries are well represented in the list with 42% of the slots.
The score per capita places Switzerland at the top, followed by Israel, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and the United Kingdom, all with scores above the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Physics | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 3 | 23.6 | 12.7 |
| Austria | 2 | 8.5 | 23.5 |
| Belgium | 1 | 11.1 | 9.0 |
| Canada | 3 | 35.5 | 8.4 |
| China | 2 | 1,393.8 | 0.1 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.6 | 17.7 |
| France | 6 | 64.6 | 9.3 |
| Germany | 7 | 82.7 | 8.5 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.8 | 38.4 |
| Italy | 3 | 61.1 | 4.9 |
| Japan | 6 | 127.0 | 4.7 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 16.8 | 23.8 |
| Russia | 1 | 142.5 | 0.7 |
| South Korea | 1 | 49.5 | 2.0 |
| Spain | 1 | 47.1 | 2.1 |
| Sweden | 1 | 9.6 | 10.4 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 8.2 | 49.0 |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 63.5 | 17.3 |
| United States | 40 | 322.6 | 12.4 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 9.3 | ||
| Average | 13.4 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
