@steellord123 “Heck, china could throw $1 trillion into shanghai U and instantly dwarf all of that” I doubt china would have a spare $1 trillion to throw at one institution. However, there is an example of that occurring.
Ever heard of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology? It’s a postgraduate school in Saudi Arabia that has a $20 billion endowment. King Abdullah and Saudi Aramco(oil company) spent $20 billion on the university and a further $200 million on top us scientist from Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley etc…
The institution aims to be the middle eastern MIT and is growing rapidly in terms of research citations.
Here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Science_and_Technology
This is just one example of how money matters and to add the university is going up many places in the global rankings.