A survey was conducted by USA Fifty State Higher Education Union on the Chinese colleges and principals of most favor. Eighty thousand questionnaires have been issued, with fifty thousand returned valid. It is the first time that a prestige assessment has been carried out in the international society to testify the popularity of Chinese colleges and principals.

Chinese Colleges of Most Favor (Top 10)

1.       Tsinghua University

2.       Peking University

3.       Zhejiang University

4.       Fudan University

5.       Nanjing University

6.       University of Science and Technology of China

7.       Shanghai Jiaotong University

8.       Huazhong University of Science and Technology

9.       Xi’an Jiaotong University

10.     Xi’an Fanyi University

Principals of Most Favor (Top 10)

1. Xu Zhihong                   Peking University

2. Ding Tanyi                    Xi’an Fanyi University

3. Gu Binglin                     Tsinghua University

4. Wang Shenghong        Fudan University

5. Pan Yunhe                    Zhejiang University

6. Zhu Qingshi                  University of Science and Technology of China

7. Xie Shengwu                Shanghai Jiaotong University

8. Jiang Shusheng            Nanjing University

9. Zheng Nanning            Xi’an Jiaotong University

10. Fan Mingwu               Huazhong University of Science and Technology