The Social Research Center of China Youth Daily conducted a web survey among 4,488 respondents, which showed that 58.8 percent of the respondents believe China has no world-class university, 18.6 percent think it has, while 21.6 percent said, "hard to say," the Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.
The survey was conducted after Peking University and Tsinghua University failed to be included in the recent 2010 Asia Top 200 University Rankings as reported by News of World on May 18, 2010.
According to the survey, commercialism tops public concerns as 75 percent of respondents show the university staffs and universities are now money-driven, changing the nature of education.
Bureaucratic manner ranks second among public concerns, other unsatisfactory opinions like poor talent development scheme, poor innovative education and plagiarism showed up in the survey report.
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