A few countries, such as Sweden and Denmark, recently implemented broad reforms, giving universities more autonomy and boosting their funding. European nations are working to standardize degrees across the continent, to ease the movement of knowledge and workers.
But as a whole, European universities have stagnated and now lag behind American universities by almost every measure - from funding to achievements in research to graduation rates.
According to one ranking of international universities (Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, which looked at research success), only two European universities - Oxford and Cambridge in England - cracked the Top 20. Seventeen of the top 20 were in the United States.
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