evidence: India: The country has 5,288 as per Statistica. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), University of Delhi, Hyderabad University, etc are some world’s premier institutes. It is the second most populated country in the world. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) [...] China: The People’s Republic of China has 2,565 universities in total. Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University are a few top universities in the country. It is the most populated country in the world. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) [...] France: The European nation has 617 universities. France includes overseas regions and territories in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. This gives it the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)