Meanwhile, the real jobs -- or at least the people that we need to employ -- are fleeing the U.S. In recent years, foreign students snagged 60% of engineering doctorates in the United States. If you widen the pool to doctorates in engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics and economics, foreigners still account for 50%...
There was a time when these students exited the academy and stayed stateside. No more. “The United States may be experiencing the first brain drain in its history,” Vivek Wadhwa, a professor at Duke told us.
In 2009, Wadhwa was among four researchers from Duke, Harvard and Berkeley who compiled a survey of more than 1,200 foreign-born students for the Kauffman Foundation. The number of Chinese who plan to stay is now just 54%, while the number of Indians who expect to remain is 58%.
What’s more, only 7% of Chinese students surveyed and 25% of Indian students believed the American economy’s best days still lay ahead. But overwhelming majorities of both Indian and Chinese students believed their home country’s best days still lay ahead.
There was a time when these students exited the academy and stayed stateside. No more. “The United States may be experiencing the first brain drain in its history,” Vivek Wadhwa, a professor at Duke told us.
In 2009, Wadhwa was among four researchers from Duke, Harvard and Berkeley who compiled a survey of more than 1,200 foreign-born students for the Kauffman Foundation. The number of Chinese who plan to stay is now just 54%, while the number of Indians who expect to remain is 58%.
What’s more, only 7% of Chinese students surveyed and 25% of Indian students believed the American economy’s best days still lay ahead. But overwhelming majorities of both Indian and Chinese students believed their home country’s best days still lay ahead.
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