The United States has the world’s best universities. At least for now.

Those universities have, in turn, attracted the world’s best researchers. According to the National Foundation for American Policy, immigrants earned 45 of the 112 Nobel prizes awarded to Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics from 2000 to 2023. 

Great universities attract the best students – from everywhere. In 2023, America exported US$50.2 billion in education services (over NZ$80b).

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