Leading Science Cities

According to the Miami Herald’s Andrés Oppenheimer none of the of the world’s leading science cities are in Latin America. Most are in the northern hemisphere. He adds: “…Latin American universities are pretty good in humanities, but relatively not that great in science and engineering, according to a separate ranking of the world’s best universities by subject that was released last week by QS World University Rankings, one of the most influential international university indexes. There are three Latin American universities among the world’s best 50 in Philosophy (Mexico’s UNAM, ranked 32; Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo, 41; and Brazil’s University of Campinas, 44). But there is not one single Latin American university among the world’s best 50 universities in physics, chemistry, engineering and computer science, which include several in China, India and Singapore, the QS rankings show.”

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