Students taking selfies during the 8th International Culture Festival of Tianjin Foreign Studies University in North China's Tianjin, April 20, 2025. - Xinhua
BEIJING: The global higher education landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, as China shows consistent improvement in academic output while universities in the United States face downward pressure in global rankings amid recent student visa policies, experts said.
China has surpassed the US for the first time in the number of universities listed in the latest Global 2000 university rankings. Chinese institutions now account for 17 per cent of the list, up from 324 last year to 346 this year, while the number of ranked US universities dropped from 329 to 319.
