THE VIDEO SHELF · university rankings
The Chinese Student Crisis
PolyMatter examines how universities, especially in the West, depend on foreign and Chinese student tuition and how rankings and incentives distort institutions around that money.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it in college-ranking and higher-ed threads as an explanation of why rankings are a hustle for foreign student revenue.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- PolyMatter
- Topic
- university rankings
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Polymatter recently had a great video on the way the college ranking system is a hustle for foreign student money, and just how heavily it distorts colleges incentives: [VIDEO]
acidbaseextract on Hacker News · 2022-03
In I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appearsPolymatter did a great episode on the pressures that create outcomes like this in regards to rankings: [VIDEO]
dnissley on Hacker News · 2022-07
In U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.