Ich bin kürzlich auf die Liste der QS Top 100-Universitäten gestoßen und habe beschlossen, sie zu visualisieren. Das globale Ungleichgewicht ist erstaunlich.
Obwohl das QS-Ranking zwar unvollkommen sein kann, kann es uns eine interessante Visualisierung allgemeiner Trends liefern.
Die größten absoluten Cluster befinden sich im Nordosten der USA, im Vereinigten Königreich, in Hongkong und in Australien. Wenn Sie nach Kontinenten herauszoomen, sind die vier wahren Epizentren akademischer Macht Nordwesteuropa, die USA und Kanada, Australien und Ostasien (insbesondere Hongkong, Japan, Festlandchina und Singapur).
Besonders Hongkong ist bemerkenswert, da es pro Quadratkilometer wahrscheinlich die höchste Dichte an Top-100-Universitäten der Welt aufweist.
Was mich jedoch am meisten überraschte, waren die leeren Bereiche:
- Südamerika: nur eine Universität (Argentinien).
- Afrika: keine.
- Die arabische Welt: nur KAUST in Saudi-Arabien.
- Indien: die Wiege der Mathematik, Heimat von Ramanujan, dem IIT-System und einer tiefen MINT-Tradition, hat null in den Top 100.
- Russland war trotz seines wissenschaftlichen Erbes aus der Sowjetzeit ebenfalls abwesend.
- Indonesien, Pakistan, Bangladesch, riesige Bevölkerungszahlen, angesehene nationale Universitäten, aber immer noch vermisst.
Nach genauerer Lektüre sind die Gründe zwar einleuchtend, aber dennoch entmutigend: chronische Unterfinanzierung der Forschung, Abwanderung von Fachkräften, bürokratische Hürden, Sprachbarrieren und Ranking-Systeme, die englischsprachige Forschungsergebnisse und globale Kooperationsnetzwerke begünstigen. Talent ist eindeutig nicht das Problem. Tatsächlich kommen viele der weltweit führenden Forscher aus diesen Regionen, arbeiten aber jetzt in den USA, Großbritannien oder Europa.
Was erklärt Ihrer Meinung nach diese Häufung am meisten? Finanzierung, koloniales Erbe, Sprache oder globale Forschungsnetzwerke? Und glauben Sie, dass wir in den nächsten Jahrzehnten jemals eine echte Verschiebung nach Süden oder Osten erleben werden?
Von Big-Bookkeeper-6742
33 Kommentare
Rich countries have enough extra money to pour into education. Meanwhile poorer countries don’t have that luxury
SUNY Plattsburgh the 27th best university in the world.
lol the pins are all shifted south in the North American map.
Georgia Tech or Emory aren’t on the list?
I’m confident that no major university is in Toledo OH
69 is the University of Texas at Austin, right?
Nice.
West Virginia University might be the best university in West Virginia, but it isn’t even the best High School in Pennsylvania.
Africa wake the f up!!
Oh good, I went to one of them.
The QS Top 100 Universities ranking is basically something made by a London company to hype up Oxford and other Western universities so it’s super biased toward universities in English-speaking countries. When it comes to actual academic or research ability, even some provincial Chinese universities will probably surpass them soon. And in reality most of the top students at those “elite” schools are already Chinese or Indian anyway.
tldr; don’t take it seriously.
„Like many other international university rankings, QS uses a citation database to calculate some of its indicators. The use of these citations databases have been criticised, since they do not include research output from the humanities and social sciences to the same degree as the natural sciences, engineering and medicine.
It has also been pointed out that the indicator ‚faculty/student ratio‘ does not measure commitment to teaching, but rather research intensity, since a large share of the faculty typically spends most or all of their time doing research rather than teaching.”
What is number 68?
It looks like it’s in or near Perth, WA.
Perth has always been one of my favourite cities in the world. Nice to know it has a high ranking university.
Do they still teach flat earth theory and creationism at US-universities ?
Surprised Dunedin ain’t there
QS is a extreme pro QS is a ranking system heavily biased towards Commonwealth countries. Its main purpose is to generate revenue for Commonwealth universities by attracting students and allowing them to easily obtain degrees after paying a large sum of money, then return to their home countries to find jobs that benefit from this information asymmetry.
Red Deer Polytechnic. I was unaware you are such a world renowned school.
UK doesn’t deserve that many, very biased ranking tbh
Hey I have degrees from two of them
Only 98 to go!
All those top unis in the States, yet politically the place is still like the Wild West. Mad shit.
what’s the one in alberta? thinking it’s U of Alberta but could be U of Calgary?
I got my degrees at 19, 57 and 4. Stayed on at 4 for some post-doctoral work and then I became a research fellow at 54 for a year before going back to 57 for three years as a junior lecturer. Then I gave it all up and became a furnituremaker for the last 18 years. I don’t know what ranking system is being used here, but I am very surprised that 2 of the 4 institutions I was involved with could make the top 100 under any sort of metric whatsoever.
No source, no methodology, no credibility.
As a Berkeley grad, I always laugh at university rankings.
The funding is usually good, the faculty too, and there are some *brilliant* people that graduate, but don’t ever thing someone is smart just for attending.
Plenty of us are idiots or just average, myself included
QS is the worst out of all the rankings lol. their rankings are the most out-of-place considered to others where schools were ranked similarly
Is Malaysia not in the Muslim world, according to you? They’re 60th in the 2025 ranking.
I applied to 24 universities in 1998-99, and they were all in Australia, Britain, Canada and the US. The reasons are evident on your maps. What has changed since then is the academic rise of China.
Just a reminder that university rankings like this are typically biased toward research output.
While it’s useful to see which universities are on the cutting edge, attending one of them as an undergraduate doesn’t necessarily translate to being better educated. Similarly, going to a poorly ranked school isn’t necessarily an indication of a poor education.
India has excellent technical schools, but very few universities.
Blue banana always appears.
canada and australia have the best universities by land mass hehe
Where is Texas A&M
ANOTHER CORONACION DE GLORIA!
UBA (Or University of Bueno Aires) being a top university and free for all citizens and residents of Argentina has to be and is a mayor source of nacional pride to Argentina
That’s not even close to where KAUST is in Saudi Arabia. It’s closer to Egypt, in Jeddah
Good ratio of top universities per capita here in Australia. I have a degree from #36 and my friend works at #19
I always find it silly that just because a university is „the best“, doesn’t mean they are the best in all fields. There are specialised universities that beats many of „the best“ universities.