China’s top universities are opening to foreign students. That’s a big problem for US schools.

by Inside China Business [2-4-2026].

Chinese universities dominate the global rankings in hard sciences, Engineering, and Computer Science.

Many of them now accept international students, and are marketing their schools in foreign countries.

US schools already face serious financial challenges, from the steep decline in international student enrollment. Foreign families typically pay full tuition and room and board, and American colleges rely on those higher fees.

Chinese universities pose an existential problem, going forward. They are qualitatively superior, even in Western surveys. And the overall cost of attendance is a mere tenth of going to a top American program.

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