School rankings were based on four aspects: school facilities, faculty strength, academic contributions, and the social contributions of its graduates!
The first three belonged to hard infrastructure. They could either be built up by throwing money at them or accumulated slowly over time. Only the social contributions of graduates were more dynamic.
For a good school, its students' overall reputation outside was extremely important. Being praised by more Celestial God Lords and making greater contributions to the Cosmic Federation reflected the academy's educational capabilities. It was also the highest-scoring category in the overall evaluation.
That was why the quality of the student body was so important. Many schools would fight tooth and nail for good students. Rui Xin could completely understand the Headmaster's expression upon seeing a treasure. As long as someone educated developers of this caliber properly and they did not die prematurely after entering society, their future achievements would certainly be substantial.
They would either become Star System Level Managers under some Great Lord or top researchers in an academic field—in any case, they would attain a certain level of social status. People like that were tremendously beneficial to a school's publicity.
However, that did not represent everything!
Indeed, a school would receive a certain amount of exposure after producing outstanding talents, but that could not fundamentally change the school's quality. A school's graduates' social contributions were mainly judged by the average level, not by any single exceptional student. It was not as though Hangzhou Normal University became better than Imperial Capital Normal University simply because it had produced Ma Baba. A school's overall strength would never change because of a few outstanding students.
Unless you produced a hundred Ma Babas...
So even though the quality of these dozen or so developers had shocked Rui Xin somewhat, the