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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Exactly. American school faculties are packed with Nobel lauriates, many of them immigrants and quite a few of whom teach seminars that upper class undergrads can take (they usually don't teach introductory courses). Only a few top European schools like "Oxbridge" come anywhere close.
And the need for the American style in higher education outside the US is demonstrated by the success of the overseas campuses of those American schools. Johns Hopkins, for example, has campuses in China (Beijing) and in Bologna, Italy. Many other schools also have campuses mainly in Asia and some in Europe.
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80% of the undergrad student body at NUS is through Singapore , a country the size of Minnesota . The catchment for these Singaporean universities is much too small ! Compare to tsinghua or Harvard which can draw from an entire major country and (in the car of Princeton or oxford etc )internationally
Thus any list which ranks these schools prominently must be questioned .
Don’t get me wrong , they were fun nice schools. Let’s just say I would have struggled a lot more to keep up with Princeton students than the cohort at NUS