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Of course the USA has one more advantage: language.
It's easier to attract the best professors and best students in the world to a country where everyone speaks English, a language those professors and students probably can speak at least on a basic level, than attract them to countries where everyone speaks German, Japanese or Mandarin.
The Ivy league schools have as said enormous funding and attract the best and the brightest from all over the world. Most European universities focus equally to educate masses, when losers like me can be admitted to a local university, while I could never be admitted to Harvard.
I think it also has to do with the very high tuition fees in the US. In comparison, you can study practically for free in germany.
Of course Universities will have lots of money if it costs you an arm and a leg to attend them.
Of course the USA has one more advantage: language.
True, but graduate programs in technical fields in most of Europe are usually taught in English. If you're getting a graduate degree at, say, the University of Heidelberg, your classes will be in English (unless you're studying something like German History or something). Engineering, the Sciences, Business, etc. will be in English.
I think it also has to do with the very high tuition fees in the US. In comparison, you can study practically for free in germany.
Of course Universities will have lots of money if it costs you an arm and a leg to attend them.
Most PhD students in the U.S. pay nothing. It's the graduate programs that determine a university's rankings.
And while it's true that undergraduate tuition in the U.S. is very high, only about 25% of students pay full tuition. And for elite schools like Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, etc. you pay nothing if your family is middle or low income. Only wealthy families pay full tuition at elite U.S. institutions.
Here's an example (but all the elite schools have roughly the same income standards). Stanford has 100% free tuition for any family earning 125,000 USD or less. http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/01/pf/c...financial-aid/
Sounds like you just consider the UK Oxbridge/US Harvard - Yale et al model to be "best".
Well. yeah, I do. So does most of the world. Most would agree that schools such as Harvard or Stanford are among the world's elite. Why would you say this isn't the case?
Granted, there are hundreds of excellent universities around the world, but if you have to rank them, most would place such schools at or near the top.
But when you talk about Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, then the uber rich US universities are on top...
It takes a lot of money to do advanced research on those fields.
I can guarantee that companies around the world want to have those graduated from the Grande Ecoles in France for all engineering purposes. Just in my company, which is US head-quartered, they are literally "loved" over many others!
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. Such a mystery...
