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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?

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  1. Maybe its because by hawleyg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Most Americans can't afford that much education because they are caught up with materialism and are saddled with taxes (either directly or on the goods they buy or the companies that make them). So now American higher educational institutions are only able to maintain their "high standards" with the money that is more and more going to be available from outside of the country. At least some Americans can afford it. I mean - when you put that much of a country's money into stuff like the military,or the interest on US' massive debt - how much of the money can come from within for things like education?

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  2. Back up your data! by Assassin+bug · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Through a very painful experience during my Ph.D. work I can say from experience that you should be less concerned about the demographics of your department and concentrate on finding a reliable way to back up your data in triplicate.

  3. Re:and? by siufish · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What's up with kdawson today? Did some Chinese or Indian punch him in the face, kick him in the nuts, steal his girl and take his job? It has been 3 posts since yesterday that blatantly target foreigners. And he so skilfully pushed /.ers' three hot buttons: Education, offshoring and human rights.

    Seriously, he is doing a great job in pushing up the number of /. comments, which is probably one of the metrics of his performance as an editor.