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14Your posting does not actually establish that "there's nothing special about the US [higher] education system". It does establish that the U.S. and British higher education systems, taken together, are jointly special. It might be useful if you addressed what's jointly special about these two systems.– MicoCommented Oct 10, 2015 at 9:05
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4This ranking also goes to show that the OP's statement "In any ranking system, at least 50% of top universities … are American." is not quite accurate.– EmilCommented Oct 10, 2015 at 9:06
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418/50 = 36% < 50% (Note that the OP said "any" and "at least", not "many" and "almost".)– EmilCommented Oct 10, 2015 at 14:12
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5These rankings are by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British educational firm. It's not too surprising they have a higher opinion of British universities than others. Even more amusing is how they rank their universities so much higher than the French ones :) The say for example that the University of Edinburgh is better than every university in France. Guess what.. it isn't.– ZarraxCommented Oct 10, 2015 at 16:47
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3@DavidPostill Being a top university is well-defined despite all the flaws in ranking systems. And it is true the US has more of the top universities than other countries– ZarraxCommented Oct 10, 2015 at 23:44
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