Okay, for the fun of it, cause it's Saturday Morning and I'm bored, I'm trying to guess what university IRL these are supposed to be: Hua = # 1 Tsinghua (The IRL university still uses old-fashioned romanization in its English name) Beijing = # 2 Peking (same thing with the English name as above) Tong = # 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong Shuang = ? couldn't match it to anything, but #4 on the list I checked was the University of Science and Technology of China Jiang = #5 Zhejiang Nan = #6 Nanjing So the rankings in the story are similar but not quite the same as on the list I looked at.