According to this data from Times Higher Education website, 45 schools in the US, made their way into the top 100 list for 2014–2015. UK comes in the second place with 11 schools. We see at least a few different names down the list from year to year, even though the top doesn’t really change. This list was created factoring in research, teaching, citations, income and international outlook. Volumes, densities and diversity all have an effect. For more details on evaluation methods, please refer to the source website.

Looking at the average score the schools got by country, we get a different picture. UK gains the lead, while the US and Switzerland follow it.

You can also find the results for different subjects on the same website. However, I decided to include only the overall result in the graph, for the sake of simplicity. (Live version of the dashboard: goo.gl/V4GhgC)

Accuracy, legitimacy and objectivity of such listings has always been a controversial subject. A lot of schools are known to work only towards the criteria that determine these rankings. On the other hand, not every school may be as open to international students (this is actually a criteria in scoring). However, after seeing most schools at certain rankings in different listings, I think we see that these charts actually give us a pretty good idea. The increasing number of for-profit educational organizations in the US might be a bad sign. However, an average score of 71.54 shows us that those 45 schools in the list are there for something.