The table below depicts how many universities charted the top 200 globally in three different subjects comprising biology, medicine and psychology in five distinct nations in 2011.
Overall, it is clear that US and UK institutions dominated the chart respectively, while the remaining groups’ figures were relatively low with New Zealand bottoming the list. Additionally, biology attracted the largest number of schools in the rankings, while medicine was the least presented category.
Regarding two countries with higher figures, 69 US educational institutions teaching biology were ranked in the top 200 chart, the highest out of all, significantly greater than that of biology schools in the UK with 30. In terms of medicine, the number of schools in the chart was 54, which was 30 higher than the 24 recorded in the UK. Moreover, UK psychology universities had 29 positions in the ranking, exactly half of the figure for the US.
As for categories with lower numbers, there were 9 biology schools in the rankings for both Australia and Canada, slightly greater than New Zealand with just 6 schools. Moreover, New Zealand’s medicine schools recorded only 2 institutions in the top 200, the lowest in this table, considerably lower than those of Australia and Canada at 13 and 12 respectively. Finally, 17 was the number of Australian psychology universities in the top, slightly bigger than that of Canada yet around four times greater than New Zealand’s schools.