Dark-Horse STEM Schools Outperform the Ivy League: Unveiling the 2025 U.S. College ROI Rankings
Recently, a research team at Georgetown University released a landmark report titled “2025: Ranking 4,600 Colleges by Return on Investment.”…
Graduate Education: The “Last Card” for Ordinary Families Seeking to Break Through Entrenched Class Rigidity in China
A wave of educational expansion intended to break the ossification of society has, more than two decades later, revealed complex…
China Is Bankrolling Global Science: The Hidden Costs of Open Access Publishing
In the first half of 2025, Nature Communications published around 5,400 papers, about 2,100 of them from Chinese authors—roughly 39%,…
The New Order in American Universities: The Trump Administration’s Path to Reshaping Higher Education
After returning to the White House following the 2024 election, the Trump administration quickly placed higher education at the center…
Asian Americans make up 41% of Harvard’s Class of 2029
On October 23, Harvard University released data for the Class of 2029, revealing that Asian Americans make up 41% of…
Twenty Years After China’s College Expansion, U.S. Universities Emerge as Unexpected Beneficiaries
NBER recently released a new working paper showing that China’s massive university enrollment expansion, launched in 1999, has not only…
A Life Adrift, a Heart Returned — Remembering Yang Chen-Ning
n October 18, 2025, Nobel laureate and physicist Yang Chen-Ning passed away at Tsinghua campus in Beijing at the age…
A Family Legacy and the Dream of Education
In the first half of this year, while helping a friend inquire about acquiring an American university, someone suggested I…
New York City Sues Social Media Giants for Harming Youth, Citing Extensive Social Science Evidence
On October 8, the New York City government and its affiliated agencies filed a 327-page complaint in U.S. federal court,…
The Sharp Decline of Chinese Students Hits U.S. Universities and Small-Town Economies
The decline in the number of Chinese students is having a profound impact on U.S. universities and local communities. According…