Eight of the world’s top 10 universities are Chinese

Chinese universities have pushed Harvard down to the world’s No. 3 spot, according to Leiden University’s 2025 rankings. Furthermore, eight of the world’s top 10 universities are now Chinese. The reason for this evaluation is that Chinese universities are producing more research than their American counterparts. According to Rafael Reif, a former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the number of papers from China dwarfs what the U.S. produces. The decline of America’s educational institutions is a symptom of the country’s overall decline in the wake of China’s rise, a trend the Trumpet has warned about for decades.