Country Scoreboard

The Country Scoreboard has been designed following the model of the QS SAFE National System for evaluation of the countries' higher education system according to the presence of their Universities in the Top 500 of the Ranking Web.

Four normalized indicators are used with equal weighting as follows:

• System: Number of universities in the Top 500 in the given country, divided by the mean position of those institutions.
• Access: A score built according to ranks (5 points for a university in the top 100, 4 points for 101-200, 3 points for 201-300, 2 for 301-400 and 1 for 401-500) divided by the population size (root of the population in thousands) of the country (World Bank, 2007).
• Flagship: A normalized score (100 for positions 1-20, 96 for 21-40, and so on) based on the leading university rank for countries with institutions among the Top 500.
• Economic: Same score as the access defined before but divided by the GDP (PPP) per capita for the country in question (World Bank, 2007).

	Distribution by Continent

CONTINENT Top 200 Top 500 Top 1000         USA & Canada 99 178 288 Europe 66 212 424 Asia 20 66 181 Latin America 9 19 58 Oceania 6 20 37 Africa 3 8 Arab World 2 4   Distribution by Country         RANK COUNTRY Top 200  Top 500 Top 1000           1 United States of America 86 155 255 2 Germany 15 44 62 3 Canada 13 23 33 4 United Kingdom 8 30 65 5 Italy 7 16 39 6 Taiwan 7 14 32 7 Brazil 7 12 28 8 Netherlands 7 11 12 9 Australia 6 17 30 10 Spain 5 24 44 11 China 4 14 64 12 Sweden 4 9 11 13 Hong Kong 3 6 6 14 Japan 2 12 34 15 Switzerland 2 7 10 16 Belgium 2 7 7 17 Portugal 2 6 11 18 Thailand 2 6 11 19 Austria 2 5 9 20 Denmark 2 5 7 21 Israel 2 4 7 22 Norway 2 4 4 23 Czech Republic 2 3 10 24 Republic Of Korea 1 5 11 25 Finland 1 5 7 26 Greece 1 4 8 27 Russian Federation 1 2 10 28 Mexico 1 2 9 29 Singapore 1 2 2 30 Chile 1 1 7 31 Slovenia 1 1 2 32 France 5 35 33 Poland 5 10 34 Turkey 4 17 35 Ireland 4 6 36 South Africa 3 8 37 Malaysia 3 7 38 New Zealand 3 7 39 Hungary 3 6 40 Indonesia 3 4 41 Slovakia 2 3 42 Argentina 2 3 43 Saudi Arabia 2 3 44 Colombia 1 6 45 India 1 4 46 Iceland 1 1 47 Costa Rica 1 1 48 Croatia (local name: Hrvatska) 1 1 49 Romania 9 50 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3 51 Lithuania 3 52 Estonia 2 53 Latvia 2 54 Venezuela 2 55 Egypt 1 56 Belarus 1 57 Macau 1 58 Peru 1 59 Philippines 1 60 Puerto Rico 1 61 Serbia 1 62 Ukraine 1 63 Vietnam 1 64 Bulgaria 1