Yeah being ranked as one of the best schools in the world will hopefully help them gain leverage. On the world stage there are only a few U.S. schools that say "the U.S. is still good at things" and letting MIT fall from those positions will make the U.S. look like their re-imagining of education is the complete failure we all know it is going to be. Would someone else take their place, yes. Will they be from the U.S., no. I was hoping UCF would reach that point somewhere along the line, but I'm biased and I think they got a boot on their neck for the last number of years that stopped them from research growth and diverted it to stupid Desantis shit.

I'm afraid the current administration doesn't care about the reputation of US institutions.

Yeah, I mean Gordon Freeman went there...