The Influence of Internal Power and External Factors on the Rising of American Research Universities

This paper probes into the effect of inside and outside factors on the appearance of American research universities, and points out the driving force for change from American higher education and the influence of German higher education are the key reasons of the rising of American research universities. From the experience of American higher education, if the Government hopes to build research universities, it's more important to expand the idea of research universities than to borrow the running model of the research universities from America.