Absolutely right. Also it costs a hell of a lot less for a wealthy family or a poor-to-moddle-income state to be educated in America and use what they learned

Absolutely right. Also it costs a hell of a lot less for a wealthy family or a poor-to-moddle-income state to be educated in America and use what they learned in their home state rather than build up equivalent educational institutions at home. That's why you end up seeing a lot of partnerships with US universities on foreign soil (Yale in Singapore, RIT in Croatia, Cornell in Abu Dhabi...) EDIT: This also helps wealthy Chinese youths who are so committed to disappointing their parents that they fail to score within the .001 percentile on the Gaokao and have to be shipped off to Harvard instead.