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The Chinese college ranking system was created by Shanghai Jiaotong University. The ranking is 90 percent based on research.

Wuhan University has a ranking system as well that has about half of that based on research.

The research reports quality depends largely on the numbers of papers that have been cited in their bibliographies. In other words, they are like the old rabbis of the first century. They get their kicks by quoting one another.

Status for universities is measured in:

1.  Conferences

2.  Memoranda of understanding signed with foreign universities

and

3.  Publishing

Missing among those three are student outcomes and placement of student into the workforce such that they make a valuable contribution to society, eh?

Chinese universities have the belikems. They want to be like them Harvards and MITs.

Everything is about the rankings.

I may be wrong, but this sounds a whole lot like the problem with American universities, no?

What do you think?