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Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?

Posted by kdawson on from the damn-it-jim-i'm-a-doctor-not-an-engineer dept.

I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my Ph.D. I have learned that 90% of my department is from India and many others are from China. All the students come here to study and there are only 7 US citizens in the engineering program this year. Why is that? I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into medicine or the law and that is why there are so few Americans in engineering. Is this true?

2 of 1,131 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's a numbers game by Panoptes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't blame the poor chap - he was obviously using Excel 2007 for the calculations.

  2. Re:and? by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your sig says I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.

    The mod points seem kind of unnecessary:

    As a practicing dentist...

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