/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10543732
the American educational system is not designed to educate Americans. America is the only place where smart foreign students are given huge stipends, rather than charged huge fees.
This is how it works: American schools make a boatload of shekels selling Americans "presigious" unchallenging bachelour's degrees based on the stellar reputations their schools have acquired by doing top-tier research. The best way to make a profit is to extract the most tuition while providing the least value, so these American graduates don't know squat, therefore the schools use this same reputation, along with some of the money extracted from the Americans to attract the best of the best students, educated in countries that actually care about post-secondary education. These students then continue to produce the top-quality research that's expected from American schools, and the cycle continues.