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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The ranking methodology emphasizes volume of research output, which means that Chinese universities will naturally dominate. There are simply 4X the number of people in China[/b] and probably 10X the number of STEM students compared to the US. While most of this stuff is dreck, the quality of research from China is also improving rapidly. I would not be surprised if (at least in science and engineering), Beijing, Fudan, USTC etc supplant MIT/Harvard/Stanford in the next few years.

And now the folks in OSTP want to fund non-University research institutions, which will undermine the research base at universities further. The war on wokeness is going to have some stark consequences.....[/quote]
It’s a school ranking. How does that have anything to do with population? You just demonstrated why American education failed.[/quote]

Let's say 2% of a population is genius level. The number of geniuses coming out of a country with a population 6x larger than another country will have 6x the number of geniuses more than that other country.
Let's say countries typically have universities that meet the demand of its genius talent. You will have roughly 6x the number of universities that meet that tier of students then.
Obviously the latter is a stretch because look at India - their universities aren't competitive. But China's invested in its higher education and the highest scoring students end up at the highest tier schools (that's the system there).

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