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The Chinese Student Crisis

PolyMatter · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Education & learningGeopolitics & foreign policyBusiness & economics (other)

What it is

PolyMatter examines how universities, especially in the West, depend on foreign and Chinese student tuition and how rankings and incentives distort institutions around that money.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it in college-ranking and higher-ed threads as an explanation of why rankings are a hustle for foreign student revenue.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Polymatter recently had a great video on the way the college ranking system is a hustle for foreign student money”

    Explains how rankings are a hustle for foreign student money.

    acidbaseextract, 2022-03 · Strong recommendation · in “I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears”

  2. “Polymatter did a great episode on the pressures that create outcomes like this in regards to rankings”

    Episode on pressures that distort university rankings.

    dnissley, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: higher education, international students, rankings, china, tuition

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