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Just thought of doing a random comparison, of a top rated Chinese University (Tsinghua) and top rated Indian University (IISc).

I am not picking on any institution, but trying to make a comparison. Generally, the top performing institutions are the best funded ones. At least according to the levels of funding in the country under consideration.

I am going by the data available on Wikipedia which might not be completely correct, but allows us to get ballpark numbers.

Compared to IISc, Tsinghua has:
- 6.8x the faculty
- 5.75x PhD students.

Tsinghua also has a USD 6B endowment. I don't think IISc has one. And even if it does, it will be very, very small (to the extent that the government rules allow)

In addition, Tsinghua graduates 10s of thousands of UGs and PGs every year, which IISc doesn't, but lets leave that aside for a moment.

This didn't happen overnight. It took a long time (decades), a lot of effort, and a lot of money to make this happen. The country decided that it is in their long term interests to fund research and universities within the country. They got the best people to work in these places, gave them the facilities they needed -- funding, spaces, equipment, incentives to get research going. And they kept doing it for a long, long time without expecting to see returns right away. I personally know of cases where top universities in China made such good offers to excellent candidates that no sane person could reject them.

And the results are there for everyone to see.

BTW, Tsinghua is just one example. There are many such universities in China that have similar levels of funding and research output.

Our top institutions do the best they can. But, end of day, they are shackled by the lack of vision and commitment of successive governments to develop the country as a research powerhouse. And then there are myriad bureaucratic rules on top of that make it even more difficult.





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