By Cris Prystay, The Wall Street Journal
A few years ago, the government of Singapore made Duke University an offer it couldn’t refuse: The city-state would underwrite a new $310 million graduate medical school and hand the entire budget over to Duke. The Singapore school would use Duke’s curriculum, and Duke would run the show, from […]
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The US may draw the lion’s share of the world’s 1.9 million international students, but for the past several years the numbers have dropped off slightly as competition in Europe and Asia grows.
Students from India, China, South Korea and Japan make up about 40 percent of foreign students in the US.
Beginning in 1954, international students […]
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Ben Barres had just finished giving a seminar at the prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 10 years ago, describing to scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and other top institutions his discoveries about nerve cells called glia. As the applause died down, a friend later told him, one scientist turned to another […]
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The rise of the “enrollment manager” and the cutthroat quest for competitive advantage. The secret weapon: financial-aid leveraging
I asked Bob Bontrager what he thought about eating other people’s lunches.
“I personally prefer kicking their ass,” he replied. “It’s a zero-sum game. There’s a finite number of prospective students out there. Are you going to get them, […]
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