Chinas Higher Education Challenges | Gerard Postiglione @NCUSCR
Chinas Higher Education Challenges | Gerard Postiglione  @NCUSCR
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
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Dr. Gerard Postiglione joins Margot Landman, NCUSCR Deputy Vice President of Programs, to discuss how China’s evolving academic system may influence its long-term trajectory and, perhaps, the global order of knowledge and innovation.

By 2025, China had twice as many college students as the United States, four times as many STEM graduates, and double the number of STEM Ph.D.’s. In Higher Education in China, Gerard A. Postiglione examines the world’s largest state-directed higher education system within the complex interplay of China’s social, economic, and geopolitical ambitions.

Dr. Postiglione describes the tension between domestic imperatives and global aspirations. As China aims to cultivate a world-class higher education system by 2035, it faces three formidable challenges: graduate employment, equitable access, and governance reform. How do both elite Chinese research institutions and rapidly expanding second- and third-tier colleges navigate these pressures amid a shifting landscape shaped by urban-rural inequality, labor market demands, and technological disruption?

About the program: ncuscr.org/event/higher-education-in-china-domestic-demands-and-global-aspirations
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