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After decades of research, no one has yet found a way to reduce bullying in US schools.

Refer to The Times (for UK schools) and US News and World Report (for US schools) to see school and major rankings.

It is an attitude that needs to be adopted in US schools too, says Joe Thomas, dean of the Johnson school at Cornell University.

Bimba is currently managed by Peking University's China Center for Economic Research and a consortium of US schools.

Almost all US schools are at least two-thirds North American.

Prof Sullivan believes some of the top US schools will soon offer one-year, full-time degrees.

But while one-year programmes are de rigueur in Europe, US schools have been slow to adopt the model.

Prof Cornuel anticipates that many US schools, will have found that their vast endowments have suffered badly due to the financial crisis.

A small but growing trend is the increase in the number of US applicants to non-US schools.

The result has been that the number of international applications this year to US schools has plummeted, often by about 20 per cent.

US schools have vast resources and a long tradition, says Prof Srivastava.

The most popular languages after English in US schools at present are Spanish and French. Japanese is the most-sought-after Asian language.

He believes that European schools are less exposed and less sensitive to the economic downturn than US schools.

"We haven't gone nearly as far as many US schools, " he says, and believes this focus on alumni will continue to grow in Europe.

Students may also apply for different US schools simultaneously, but here, they only get one shot.

The problems for US schools do not stop there.

US schools generally announce their accreditation in ad-mission brochures.

The figures include programmes launched with US schools as partners.

Not so. While the top US schools promote the two-year MBA as the gold standard, he has different views.

The most popular languages after English in US schools at present are Spanish and French.

The warnings remind many people of the nuclear attack drills that were run in US schools at the height of the Cold War.

The salaries for the top five US schools in the 2007 rankings have still not climbed back to those heady days, averaging just $158, 429.

Amongst that top cadre of US schools the pecking order is also changing.

Since then, the number of US schools in the top 25 has decreased, reaching 11 in 2008, and this year.

The programme includes an additional 20, 000 visas for foreign students with advanced degrees from US schools.

US schools with joint programmes in China and India are also increasingly common.

Researchers studied more than 15, 000 students and their parents at US schools from age 12 to 17.

Both US and non-US schools reported sharp increases last year in applications from foreign students.

For safety at some US schools, students must have a pair of indoor shoes to change into at school every day.

The very best US schools are seen as such because they inspire their students to be curious, interested, and excited;

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