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On standards or conventions specific to the United States higher education system, which differs in structure and style from the systems in other parts of the world.

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Why are most of the top universities American?

Here's an aspect that's mostly missing in the answers that have been posted so far: American universities -- at least the ones which value research output, which are also the ones that tend to show up …
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How is European habilitation viewed in the US?

An up-front comment: This answer has managed to attract a fair number of downvotes, as well as several very helpful follow-up comments (which have since been moved to chat). One hypothesis offered by …
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