<div><b>Winner of the 2017 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education (CIHE/ASHE)</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Winner of the 2018 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence: Education Theory</b></div><div><br></div>In T<i>he Century of Science</i>, a multicultural, international team of authors examine the global rise of scholarly research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health (STEM+) fields. This insightful text provides historical and sociological understandings of the ways that higher education has become an institution that, more than ever before, shapes science and society. Case studies, supported by the most historically and spatially extensive database on STEM+ publications available, of selected countries in Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East, emphasize recurring themes: the institutionalization and differentiation of higher education systems to the proliferation of university-base