Harvard Gets Schooled by China as America’s Universities Choose Activism over Excellence
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New research rankings show Chinese institutions dominating top spots while US universities focus on DEI
Harvard isn’t supposed to be chasing. It’s supposed to be leading.
Yet a new global ranking put out by Holland’s Leiden University — a measure of the number and importance of research publications — has Harvard down to third place worldwide, and both institutions ahead of it are Chinese. It gets worse for America: in the top 20, Harvard and the University of Michigan are the only U.S. universities. China takes 16 of the top 20 slots.
Unlike many such university lists, this ranking isn’t a reputational beauty contest, but a statistical analysis based on publication data. In other words, it’s one way of measuring what a research university is supposed to do: produce serious scholarship at scale.
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Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute.
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