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If the World Wars never happen which started the outflow of European capital and brains to the US, what would that do to the US university system? The US really only managed to catch up to and exceed the Europeans after WW2 when the best minds in Europe fled the Nazis and aftermath of the war, upgrading both the British and US universities by their addition to the faculty. However if the Germans and all other stayed at home and continued to make their universities the hubs of science and other fields would the US system ever be world class or would the Europeans just keep their lead?
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