From this week's Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/flood-chinese-graduate-students-stem-was-boon-u-s-students Excerpt: “What’s really cool about this study is that it documents, for the first time, how the Chinese government, in growing higher education at home, also contributed in a significant way to the growth of U.S. graduate education, especially at the master’s level in STEM,” It may be unlikely that people wish to discuss foreign countries' educational policies here. But if so, the gaokao exam is quite e thing.