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We don’t have a single domestic TA in the department I’m matriculated in
by selimthegrim 3y ago
We don’t have a single domestic TA in the department I’m matriculated in
- alephnerd 3y agoNot surprising. The economics of doing graduate school as an American just don't make sense (outside of those closely affiliated with DoE labs). For a foreigner (Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Iranian) the incentive of getting a path to naturalization along with degree normalization is enough incentive (as you yourself probably know). No American employer is going to hire a LUMS or UET graduate directly, and if you don't want to work in the Gulf or in Pakistan, your only option is graduate school, especially because there aren't as many MNCs to sponsor an L1/2 Top tier foreign talent gets brought directly via L1/2 programs (like my parents a couple decades ago) as MNCs will transfer the cream of the crop to HQ. In cases like Pakistan and increasingly China, where MNCs don't have full ownership or are non-existent, the only path is graduate school. Same thing used to happen to Israelis and Indians in the 1980s.
- selimthegrim 3y agoI’m domestic (my mother was born in Pak), I did a stint as an instructor so I don’t TA anymore. But even when I did they could be counted on the fingers of one hand.