There are plenty of American Universities below position 40 on that list. I also doubt that if France would suddenly start to charge its students a huge tuition fee that the scores would go up dramatically.
Given the size of the respective economies of France and the US it is actually surprising to see them in the top 40, I would never have expected that, if tuition were the secret then they should have been near position 100 or lower.
The first 39 slots are divided between the US, Japan, England, Canada and Switzerland.
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There are plenty of American Universities below position 40 on that list. I also doubt that if France would suddenly start to charge its students a huge tuition fee that the scores would go up dramatically.
http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp
Given the size of the respective economies of France and the US it is actually surprising to see them in the top 40, I would never have expected that, if tuition were the secret then they should have been near position 100 or lower.
The first 39 slots are divided between the US, Japan, England, Canada and Switzerland.