True, though many of the initiatives for more STEM workers (through visa programs) focus more on graduate students, especially at the PhD level. There are vari

True, though many of the initiatives for more STEM workers (through visa programs) focus more on graduate students, especially at the PhD level. There are various exemptions to visa caps for people with grad degrees, and there was a proposal (that died along with general immigration reform) to provide a green card to anyone with a PhD in certain STEM fields, with a possibility for people with MS degrees should there not be enough PhDs. It's not 100%, but I'd say there is definitely a push toward graduate education in the "STEM worker shortage" conversation. Interestingly, a RAND study found that the reason people with choice don't get PhDs in STEM fields is because they aren't competitive with the "professions", or even para-professions in health related areas. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/issue_papers/2005/IP241.pdf https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/issue_papers/2005...