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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. Re:It's a numbers game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    >America has 300,000 people

    Holy Shit!

  2. Re:It's a numbers game by the_fat_kid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    yeah, the town I live in is almost 300,000.
    try 300,000,000.
    still a lot less than China, but not an order of magnitude.

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