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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perspective of someone who attended international schools in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Tier 1: HYPSM, Oxford, Cambridge

Tier 2: Columbia, Chicago, Duke, Wharton

Tier 3: Northwestern, Cornell, UPenn, Caltech (suffers from complete lack of name recognition but otherwise would be Tier 2)

Tier 4: Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins

Tier 5 and below: Imperial, UCL, LSE, NYU, etc.[/quote]

How did Duke get so popular around the world so quickly? When I was growing up I just knew I didn't want Duke basketball to win anything and no one said anything about it being a good school. Of course now I know it's a world-class university that's better than most of the ivy league schools, but I seriously wonder what happened between my childhood and now.[/quote]

When you open up a collaborative university in PRC (Duke Kunshan) your world recognition is bound to rise.[/quote]

Smart investment by them, seeing that China is the next big market. Parents, now is a good time to get your kids into Duke before it gets flooded by international students.[/quote]

You must be naïve or incredibly stupid, no investment with the PRC is a "smart" investment.  Unless you have been under a rock for the last 3 years you might want to sit this one out.[/quote]

I think you’re naive if you don’t think PRC is going to be a peer to the US in many facets. Its downside is its style of governance and censorship but schools like Duke Kunshan help create pockets of openness inside China.[/quote]

Get informed...The PRC is already a near peer and in all of the worst ways.  Creating pockets of openness inside of the PRC is not an issue because everything that is allowed is for manipulation and PRC gain. If this has to be explained to you than you have no clue of the "higher" level issues with the PRC. Just see the BRI and everything connected to it.  The PRC is not a place we should invest in, it is a place we should avoid but you do you.[/quote]

There are two different conversations going on. One person is talking about what’s smart for Duke, which investing in building relations with China definitely is to grow their brand and influence. The other is talking about some potential moral issues with the CCP. The second person is probably a back-office gov worker who I’m glad does not make decisions for my DC’s university. Not that it’s as good as Duke anyways.[/quote]

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