China’s recent formation of C9, an alliance of nine prestigious universities hailed as China’s Ivy League, differs from the U.S.’s Ivy League in several ways:
1) C9 universities are public; the Ivy League universities are private.
2) C9 universities answer to the Ministry of Education; the Ivy League universities answer to their own board.
3) C9 formed around academics; the Ivy League formed around athletics.
4) C9 includes nine universities; the Ivy League includes eight.