Comment by hvb2

Let me phrase it this way for you. The best universities are in the US for a lot of things. But they don't scale.

In another way, the top talent gets Ferraris for their tuition, the rest gets a bike. In a lot of European countries everyone can get the Toyota Camry of education, decent but not world class. That does scale though.

Spending isn't everything, it's how you apply that spending.