Chapter 227 Private University

After chatting with Xu Hanshan for a meal, Wu Bin discovered a very serious problem.

That was Gu Ningshan's willingness to fight, and he was in vain!

This little girl probably spent the entire summer vacation obsessed with processing data. She remembered her commission just before returning home, so she randomly approached a senior to inquire about American universities.

However, the key point was not asked at all!

The teacher-student ratio that Gu Ningshan described without having to rush for classes, and the rich operation of the school hiring whatever teacher you want does exist, but it only exists in private universities.

The concept of private universities was actually quite unfamiliar to him before he heard Xu Hanshan's introduction. In other words, domestic students should be very unfamiliar with this concept.

However, the eight famous Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton are all private universities, without exception!

Then several people talked about the latest QS university rankings and found that except for the United States, all other countries have the strongest public universities. In other words, the United States is unique in having universities like this.

Xu Hanshan, as a top student at Wharton School of Business, also explained the differences between public universities and private universities in great detail.

First of all, the founder of a private university must be awesome. Let’s not talk about the founder of the University of Pennsylvania. They have already printed a hundred-dollar bill, so I am asking you if you accept it?

Xu Hanshan then gave Wu Bin and the others an example of Drexel University, which is one of the "Three Famous Schools in Philadelphia" along with the University of Pennsylvania. Their School of Business and School of Public Health have also been ranked very high in the rankings. .

The senior of this university is called Anthony J. Dressel. Xu Hanshan doesn’t know what kind of hidden predator he is, but she knows that this boss has a particularly awesome godson named J.P Morgan, who is the world’s top The name of Bank**** Bank, an absolute chaebol.

"I heard from the gossip that when Wall Street was first established, it seemed that there was more or less support from President Drexel."

Such a whisper from Xu Hanshan made the other three people at the table get goosebumps. Wall Street! That is the financial center of the world! Big boss boss.

Secondly, you have to be rich, really rich.

The establishment of a university, the recruitment of teachers, the recruitment of outstanding students, the acquisition of various copyrights and the purchase of teaching materials are all money.

Take the University of Pennsylvania as an example. They spend tens of millions of dollars every year on professional search software and e-books to enhance their various soft powers.

After achieving these two points, you have to cultivate many top social elites to become your living advertisements.

Because you are a private university, you must make money on your own, and the profit model of private universities is much cruder than Wu Bin imagined, that is, tuition fees are extremely expensive.

For example, at Harvard, one year's tuition is about US$43,000, which is nearly 300,000 US dollars when converted into RMB! And this is just the tuition fee. In addition, insurance, activity fees, accommodation fees, etc. are not cheap, and it will cost almost another 20,000 US dollars in total.

This is really an unaffordable expense for ordinary families, so without scholarships and health care, some students will be deterred by the high tuition even if they can get into Harvard.

What should I do if I really have no money and want to go to private school? Take a loan. Xu Hanshan said that she knew a professor at her school who finally paid off his college loan at the age of 38. He was so happy that he ate two more burgers.

And this high tuition fee is why private universities must cultivate a large number of top social elites to advertise for you. Otherwise, if your employment rate is the same as that of some good public universities, why would others come to you and spend such wasteful money?

That's why in private universities, Gu Ningshan said that if you want to learn Danish, the school will directly hire a teacher to teach him alone.

Because for private universities, students are customers, and what are customers? Customer is god!

In addition, in order to attract these "customers", private universities must have better teachers, and better teachers mean high salaries.

The learning environment also needs to be good. The dormitories are all single rooms, and even the bathrooms are equipped with air conditioners. In addition, the software equipment must be updated in time. For example, you must have all kinds of genuine programming software.

So under these premises, there are really endless talents among the teachers of these top private universities.

He is the former CEO of IBM, a well-known local business executive, he is the author of most economics textbooks in the country, and he is a successful person who has been in Fortune Magazine.

Of course there are some great people at Penn. For example, Xu Hanshan admires a teacher in their college very much. How awesome is this guy? On average, he builds a company in three years, invests hundreds of thousands, and sells it for tens of millions after three years. That kind of success.

And we still made 6 companies in a row! At the same time, I still come to class every day, just like a heifer flying.

There is also the kind of person who goes out to take a phone call in the middle of class, and then comes back and says to his classmates, "Classmates, bless me, I won the Nobel Prize. Okay, let's continue the class."

After Xu Hanshan finished telling these anecdotes about celebrities, she looked at the expressions of the other three people and found that Bo Jiasheng and Zheng Wenhan were stunned, but Wu Bin looked like he was thinking about something.

"What are you thinking about?" Xu Hanshan asked, patting Wu Bin gently.

Wu Bin was stunned for a moment, then reacted and replied: "I was thinking... If this kind of private university wants to appear in China, there must be a huge chaebol willing to make a very long-term investment such as investing in the university, right?"

"Hmm~" Xu Hanshan nodded with satisfaction, "The summary is very good, but what about private universities? They are more than 100 years earlier than the founding of the United States. They can be said to be a standard product of the times and are difficult to imitate, but In fact, I personally think there is no need to deliberately imitate, after all, there is always more than one way to success."

After hearing this, Wu Bin nodded in agreement, feeling that the top female student in front of him seemed to have something to say.

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The next day, the International College Physics Competition officially began. The opening ceremony was similar to that of IPhO, with various oaths and speeches. However, it seemed that because it was the first invitational competition, several heavyweights in the physics community were also invited. Wu Bin has read each of their papers.

What Wu Bin didn't know was that when he was listening carefully to the speeches of several professors, an American brother next to him suddenly lost his mentality.

After angrily spitting out a word that started with F, Aiden turned back to his Asian teammates and whispered: "I thought the rubbery steak yesterday would be the worst thing that happened to me in this game."

"What, do you hate the speeches of these professors?" Leonard, Aiden's Asian teammate, raised his glasses and asked strangely.

Aiden shook his head: "No...it's because I saw a person who is qualified enough to speak on stage now standing in the same team as us."