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The long march to higher education

I recently visited the top four universities on the Chinese mainland - Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As a US educational researcher, the purpose of my visit was to witness and assess China's higher education revolution firsthand.

In the 30 years since 1978, China has experienced a higher education revolution. It now has the largest number of higher educational institutions in the world. Five of its universities are in the world's top 100. University enrollment has more than tripled since 2000.