/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3572744
As a student in one of the "highest ranked" European Universities, I always found the American system more impressive.

We get quite a lot of US students from well know institutions and it is interesting to hear from them what they think.

I myself have only been at a very brief visit at the California institute for technology, still I was left very impressed. The attitude over there is somehow different.

Then again we are quite close, 3 of the 4 professors I was involved with last term were at least partially educated in the US. 1 was a post doc at Princeton and later worked at Bell Labs, another was a professor at UCLA before he came here etc...

I myself would also like to go to America someday to, they say it is a invaluable experience, but I would not like to leave Europe forever.

The UK has some elite institutions as well obviously, but they are an exception in the otherwise somewhat mediocre European higher education system, which has a large lack of elite institutions.

But it is not all bad, Europe does fine and it does not have the huge tuition fees that the US has, but I think we could do a lot better and the American top should serve as a good model for what Europe should create.

>Pic related; It is the top-THE-uni rankings in physicals sciences, not that rankings is everything, but Europe, with its larger population should be able to do better.