The table supplied compares the top 200 university volumes of five different countries globally in terms of biology, medicine and psychology in 2011.
Overall, it is clear that the USA was the dominant nation in all three academic fields, followed by the United Kingdom. Furthermore, biology and psychology tended to have more top-tier universities rather than medicine.
The USA made up 69 leading universities specializing in biology, while the UK stood at 30. The quantity of institutions of higher education consisted of 54 in the field of medicine in the USA. Meanwhile, the UK recorded 24. In psychology, both of the countries registered 58 and 29 respectively.
Regarding biology, Australia and Canada followed a similar trend with 9 top 200 universities, whereas New Zealand made up 6 in 2011. Australia and Canada showed a slightly different pattern, representing 13 and 12 relatively, compared with New Zealand’s 2 in medicine. The number of top 200 universities of Australia and Canada made up 17 and 14 relatively in psychology. New Zealand exhibited the lowest figure, accounting for 4.
