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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My prediction is that colleges in other countries (in Europe? Canada? Australia?) will take the places of US colleges in world rankings within the next decade or so. The colleges where performance is still the measure for getting in and they can keep academic standards high and therefore graduation prospects really good will become much more in demand. High performing kids will be applying elsewhere, not here.[/quote]

Soooo - colleges are not ranked based on the students that attend but on the faculty who teach there. Your argument makes no sense, especially when one of the changing factors is that US schools are taking more and more international students.  A great example of this is in graduate school - where most top US STEM programs have fewer than 50% of their graduate students as US citizens.[/quote]

Academics want to work at universities that have a high quality student base. It’s a lot less work and more fulfilling for the academics to teach those students. Not to mention the fact that grad students do most of the heavy lifting in academia.

The shift might not happen overnight, but the good academics will go where the good students are.[/quote]

They want to work where they get the most support to do their work, which includes a strong graduate student program. Having a lighter undergrad teaching load is generally considered better (unless you are into SLAC teaching model) and most heavy hitters would prefer the grad students to interact with the undergrads.

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