It's hard to get good data, but I've read the opposite - that educational standards for engineers may be much higher in the US than in India and China. Here's

It's hard to get good data, but I've read the opposite - that educational standards for engineers may be much higher in the US than in India and China. Here's a link to a business week article by Vivek Wadhwa, a prof at Duke: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051212_623922.htm http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051... and another by Pete Engardio on a related topic... http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051223_7594_db039.htm http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf200512... Btw, none of this is meant to knock the top tier, such as the IIT schools, which are excellent But we're talking about the "masses" here...