Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
When thirty-eight of the universities in a top one hundred list are American, and eleven of these in the top fifteen, they must be pretty good.

Frankly, students should pay more for education. There is concern in many countries, such as Canada, about too many students going to university. You can't make the entry tests/requirements harder, or universities will lose a lot of money and require [more] government subsidy. You can raise the cost it takes to get in - the smarter students will get scholarships so it won't have an effect upon their costs of education, and the bottom of the pack will drop off. It would still lose the university money, but probably not as much.
In the UK you can get into Uni on 2 D's. You can raise the requirement to B and two C's minimum, and close every university that offers courses lower than that. Pricing people out of the system is the definition of Bad Practice.

Also, you can just lower the cap on students; my university takes more every year.