Why does the USA dominate university league tables
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mei Li (0000-0003-0477-0590, The University of Queensland), Sriram Shankar (0000-0001-9096-9883, The University of Queensland), Kam Ki Tang (0000-0001-7282-8112, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 923-937 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2010.482981 |
| OpenAlex | W2061499216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 12 |
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the world’s top 500 universities are located in only 38 countries, with the USA alone having 157 of them. This article investigates the socioeconomic determinants of the wide performance gap between countries, and whether the USA’s dominance is largely due to its economic power. A large amount of cross-country variation in university performance can be explained by just four socioeconomic factors: income, population size, research and development spending, and the national language. Conditional on the resources that it has, the USA is actually underperforming by about 4–10%. On the contrary, an emerging economic power, China, is rising fast in the league table as well as outperforming countries with similar levels of resources
China · Classical economics · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Higher education · League · League table · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Higher Education Governance and Development
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |