The video embedded in the article talks about Tsinghua University beating MIT in rankings. This is a quantity vs quality since Tsinghua University churns out more research papers than MIT [1] because of the vast amount of students.
To be fair, Tsinghua is widely accepted as the second best university in all of China; the quality of the students is extremely high. The quality of the research is probably not so high.
As far as I know, the prestige university you go to if you want a specifically technical education is Shanghai Jiao Tong Daxue. (Don't take that as particularly authoritative; I'm mostly familiar with it as a contrast to Fudan.) But I don't believe Tsinghua is technically focused in the manner of MIT. It's very much part of China's Ivy League.
> To be fair, Tsinghua is widely accepted as the second best university in all of China
Tsinghua University and Beijing University are both regarded as the best university in China, with different people ranking different one first. But in the area of CS, Tsinghua University is undeniably the first.
The video embedded in the article talks about Tsinghua University beating MIT in rankings. This is a quantity vs quality since Tsinghua University churns out more research papers than MIT [1] because of the vast amount of students.
[1] - http://qz.com/522471/the-real-reason-chinese-universities-ar...