>>12842019This is a complete non-sequitur. If you think that the public is too incompetent to hire a good faculty, I don't see how it follows that a private group of individuals will be able to. Public universities already exist and they're doing just fine. In fact, if you look at most R1 and R2 universities in the US, and other top universities around the world, almost every single one is a public university. There are only a few dozen top ranked private universities, and almost all of them are in the US, and literally all of them are still non-profits, despite being private. Of you don't believe, then feel free to look into. There are like a few private, not for profit universities in the US that are top ranked, e.g. Stanford, John Hopkins, Harvard, etc. A lot of the other good universities in the US are public, e.g. UCLA, Berkeley, Irvine (basically all of the UC system), UNC Chapel Hill, College of William and Mary, University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Washington, CUNY, etc. If you look outside of the US, at Europe, Latin America, and Asia, pretty much all of their top unis are public, research universities. The vast majority of private universities are diploma mills.
