That’s not true and uninformed. What even makes you believe this? Europe has tons of top research universities. Both EU and China are competing with the US [0]

That’s not true and uninformed. What even makes you believe this? Europe has tons of top research universities. Both EU and China are competing with the US [0]. And this news is not an isolated event. The majority of Americans rank US higher education research and innovation as: poor [1]. US top universities are shrinking PhD programs [2. The thing that makes the US unique is that they are really dropping the ball in a lot of areas, because of bad leadership of the financial and political “elite”. [0] https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-research-stacks-against-world-three-charts https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-researc... [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-share-of-americans-say-the-us-higher-education-system-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-s... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-fewer-phds-science.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-...