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If this plan goes thru, maybe a university should undertake some sort of advanced accreditation process to be able to award green cards. I would hazard a guess

If this plan goes thru, maybe a university should undertake some sort of advanced accreditation process to be able to award green cards. I would hazard a guess that some universities (state unis?) aren't necessarily attracting the best and brightest. Anecdotal, but I took a few masters CS courses at an average state uni, and the foreign students had a similar academic rigor and aptitude as the general uni population for the most part, displayed through mean test and assignment scores. I could be totally wrong but it might be dangerous to assume we are attracting only the best and brightest, no? Seems like we are attracting anyone on the spectrum who can dole out some money to a university and get a stem degree.

GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago
Even if it were only one in a hundred foreign students that turned out to actually be exceptionally talented, taking them all is a drop in the bucket relative to overall incoming immigration, both legal and not. (Even if the ratio were one in a thousand, it would still not be all that bad; the STEM student population is not all that large.) Moreover, even if most foreign born students in a STEM program were merely as good as native students, as you suggest, that still puts them intellectually and educationally well above the average citizen, let alone the average immigrant. There is no way that it does not make sense to offer foreign STEM students green cards, so long as the university is reasonably accredited.