Covering the business of education and training

The Japan Center for Economic Research has developed a method of ranking potential competitiveness...that is future competitiveness.

There were eight criteria that were evaluated:

1. internationalization

2. enterprise

3. education

4. finance

5. government

6. science and technology

7. infrastructure

8. Information technology

Indicators for education were based on rate of enrollment in higher education, TOEFL scores, average years of school attendance and ratio of government education expenditure to GDP.

The top twenty competitive nations in Education

20. United Kingdom

19. Saudi Arabia

18. Hungary

17. Germany

16. Taiwan

15. Hong Kong

14. Switzerland

13. Australia

12. Israel

11. Japan

10. Poland

 9. Russia

 8. Canada

 7. Finland

 6. Denmark

 5. South Korea

 4. New Zealand

 3. United States

 2. Sweden

 1. Norway


Seems like the Nordic countries are the place to be if you want to get a first rate education.

I hope someone from one or more of those countries weigh in.

The list of the top fifty countries can be found here.