The 10 countries with the most top-ranked universities

Harvard University College Campus Students
Via Flickr

The US has the most top-ranked universities in the world — far more than any other country.

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A new ranking from US News & World Report lists the 750 best global universities, with 181 American schools making the list.

By comparison, China, which came in second on the overall list, has 57 schools represented.

The majority of the universities in US News' top 20 were American, including Harvard University in the top spot. The ranking also featured three British universities and a Canadian university.

Here are the 10 countries that had the most universities on US News & World Report's global ranking:

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#10 — Japan (24 universities)

University Tokyo Campus Library
University of Tokyo (#31) Via Wikimedia Commons

#9 — Spain (25 universities)

University Barcelona Students Campus Cloister
University of Barcelona (#90) Via Flickr
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#7 (tie) — Australia (26 universities)

University Melbourne Queen's College Students Campus
University of Melbourne (#40) Via Flickr

#7 (tie) — Canada (26 universities)

McGIll University
McGill University (#53) Shaun Best/Reuters
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#6 — France (30 universities)

University Paris Diderot Campus
University of Paris Diderot (#109) Via Flickr

#5 — Italy (38 universities)

University Bologna Students
University of Bologna (#142) Via Flickr
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#4 — Germany (50 universities)

University Gottingen Campus Students
University of Gottingen (#134) Via Flickr

#3 — United Kingdom (55 universities)

Radcliffe Camera Oxford University Campus Students
University of Oxford (#4) Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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#2 — China (57 universities)

Peking University Campus
Peking University (#41) Via Flickr

#1 — United States (181 universities)

Harvard Students College University Campus Yard
Harvard University (#1) Via Flickr
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