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Slightly OT. The video embedded in the article talks about Tsinghua University beating MIT in rankings. This is a quantity vs quality since Tsinghua University
by hackerboos 11y ago
Slightly OT.
The video embedded in the article talks about Tsinghua University beating MIT in rankings. This is a quantity vs quality since Tsinghua University churns out more research papers than MIT [1] because of the vast amount of students.
[1] - http://qz.com/522471/the-real-reason-chinese-universities-are-climbing-the-ranks-in-engineering-and-beat-out-mit/ http://qz.com/522471/the-real-reason-chinese-universities-ar...
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- thaumasiotes 11y agoTo be fair, Tsinghua is widely accepted as the second best university in all of China; the quality of the students is extremely high. The quality of the research is probably not so high.
- gojomo 11y agoAnd Tsinghua graduates figure disproportionately in the national leadership: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique I suppose it's a bit like if MIT grads were ~40% of the US cabinet or Senate committee chairs – rather than so many Ivy League lawyers.
- thaumasiotes 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C9_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C9_League As far as I know, the prestige university you go to if you want a specifically technical education is Shanghai Jiao Tong Daxue. (Don't take that as particularly authoritative; I'm mostly familiar with it as a contrast to Fudan.) But I don't believe Tsinghua is technically focused in the manner of MIT. It's very much part of China's Ivy League.
- netheril96 11y ago> To be fair, Tsinghua is widely accepted as the second best university in all of China Tsinghua University and Beijing University are both regarded as the best university in China, with different people ranking different one first. But in the area of CS, Tsinghua University is undeniably the first.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoWhy "Beijing University" but "Tsinghua"?