Top Chinese universities not making the grade: Poll

BEIJING - More than half of the students polled in a recent survey said that the country does not have universities that can rank as the world's top schools.

The results of the survey, which were released by the social survey center of the China Youth Daily late last month, polled 4,488 people online, with 25.9 percent of them having studied in first-level universities in China.

Only 30.1 percent of the respondents were satisfied with their college experience, the survey showed. Nearly 59 percent said the country lacked top universities on the global scale.