Monday, November 14, 2005

Foreign Student Numbers Drop

US Colleges are very good. Look at how many people from outside the US come attend them. The situation is good all around for the most part -- the US gets to import the best and brightest of the student population of which many stay in the US. The students get benefits such as the education and jobs. However if a trend starts developing of enrollments being down, then the situation will worsen.

We already have a bad situation in science and engineering: "In many schools they account for the majority of graduate students in science and engineering. The United States is not producing enough engineers to maintain its global lead in that field. That is among many of the conclusions in the book I'm currently reading: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.

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