It wasn't that long ago that we reported on how Tsinghua led the world in sending its undergraduates on to obtain American doctorate degrees. Now The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on a Chinese measure of Academic success that puts American school at the top of the heap.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, published annually by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks the top 500 universities in the world based on SJTU's unique set of criteria.

Number one? Harvard.

In fact, four of the top five school are American Universities: Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkley Cambridge (in the UK), and MIT. Oxford (UK) is number 10 and Tokyo University is number 19; but 17 of the top 20 schools listed are US Universities. In fact, 36 of the top 50 schools are American.

No Chinese University makes the top 100 in the Shanghai list…

Classroom at Harvard
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