The given chart illustrates how many universities were ranked top 200 in the world in three fields in five nations ( the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada), based on data from 2011.
Overall, it is evident that the USA was dominant compared to remaining countries, having the highest number of top-200 universities in three subjects. By contrast, New Zealand recorded the smallest figures across the table.
Regarding the top 2, the US was the largest numbers by far with 69 universities in biology, listed followed closely by medicine and psychology, at 54 and 58 universities respectively. Occupying the second position was the UK, with the figures for biology, medicine and psychology being 30 and 24 universities, which only less than half of American top-200 universities in these fields. Furthermore, the UK had 29 universities in psychology, accounting for exactly half of the USA’s figure.
In the other countries, similar figures can be seen in both Australia and Canada in biology, sharing exactly 9 universities. Moreover, Australia had 13 universities in medicine and 17 universities in psychology, while Canada’s figures were slightly lower, at 12 and 14 universities in order. Finally, New Zealand recorded the lowest numbers of universities in three subjects. It only had 6 universities ranked in biology, 2 in medicine and 4 in psychology.