Due to the relative young age compared to other top-tier universities in China, DUT campus has a modern look.

They have not kept records, but the head teacher, Truda White, estimates that only one student went to a top-tier university every couple of years.

But because of such academic trespassing, his professional colleagues say, he has not been invited to teach at a top-tier university.

It ranked as follows among the 126 top-tier universities:

Many students in the program go on to top-tier universities and have earned exceptional internship offers to research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

And the second worried that making Baylor a top-tier university would take away from its focus on teaching and would make it too expensive for many students.

The school consistently sends athletes to top-tier universities to continue their athletic careers.

In 2012, 230 students were recommended to enter top-tier Chinese universities without taking the usually-required national college entrance examination.

Another 49 students were admitted by top-tier overseas universities.

The Engineering Academy and the Paideia program routinely send students to top-tier public and private universities.