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Saudi Arabia is trying to create an elite university from a large starting endowment. Let's see how it goes in a generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King

• TuringNYC 4y ago
  There is already a mature experiment of throwing money at the problem, 15+yrs in the running: https://www.qf.org.qa/education/education-city https://www.qf.org.qa/education/education-city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_City To consider: what is the yield per dollar of such experiments? Side note: Education City might not be the best example because Qatar effectively has to pay 2x for employees and supplies/raw materials to compensate people for moving there, so right away all yields are halved.