What non-Americans think of America's higher educational system.

When non-Americans comment on America's higher educational system these are the things that I've heard -

1. That their degree(s) cost 1/3 (or anything less than the amount the average America pays for a BA) of that of an American degree.

2. American graduate students are babied and that graduate students at say, Oxford, are treated with independence where a greater amount of maturity is expected.

3. If your degree isn't from the Ivy League, Stanford, University of Chicago or MIT it's crap.

These came from several Englishmen, an Australian and I believe some European from continental Europe. Of course, one of the Englishmen was the father of a Cambridge student and the Australian had a law degree, so go figure about the snot coming from their nose.