These 20 institutions compensate full-time professors and lecturers an average of 230,000 USD or more annually, with Princeton University leading the list.

Rejected by 16 universities despite an excellent academic record, Stanley Zhong recently achieved a significant breakthrough when a court rejected a motion to dismiss his lawsuit against one of the institutions.

The artificial intelligence boom has transformed many math and computer science students at MIT and Oxford into "superstars" sought after by Wall Street and Silicon Valley, with seven-figure income packages.