Leaders from the G20 Summit have their own favorite Chinese universities. (Photo : Getty Images)
The report was published at the Chinese Alumni Network website, cuaa.net, showed that over 250 global leaders have delivered speeches in 50 Chinese universities.
Peking University, in its 120 years of existence, is still the most visited and the top favorite university in China. It has been visited 21 times by G20 summit leaders.
Next is the Tsinghua University in Beijing, which was visited by leaders 14 times, and Tongji University in Shanghai, which was visited eight times.
Germany is the nation with the most number of visits to Chinese learning institutions and showed the most interest compared to their foreign counterparts.
"Visiting leaders consider factors such as the impact of the university, as well as the university's historic and business links with their country," said Cai Yanhou, a senior researcher with cuaa.net and a higher education researcher at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan province.
In a report released in 2015 by QS World University Rankings by Subject, Chinese universities have shown that they are still leaders in education.
Ben Sowter, head of research of QS, a higher education research company, said, "What manifests itself as a very clear trend, however, is that institutions in the region are much more strongly represented than last year, with 70 additional places across the subjects occupied by universities from China and Hong Kong."
The report also said that Hong Kong universities displayed increased international competitiveness with a strong presence in the subjects. Most of the top 50 are Chinese.
Sowter added, "This perhaps indicates a deepening of quality across the sector in mainland China - in other words, a growing capacity to offer a world class education at a world-class university to more students in more subjects."
