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Forget that angle for a second. When I sitting in my graduate engineer classes, 50%+ of the students were foreign. Most of them were working with professors on
by krschultz 14y ago
Forget that angle for a second.
When I sitting in my graduate engineer classes, 50%+ of the students were foreign. Most of them were working with professors on projects supported by the federal government via various grants programs (NIS, DOD, etc). Most of them wanted to stay in the US after graduation.
Few of them were allowed to.
Doesn't that seem like a massive waste of our educational system? Why are we spending so much time and energy educating people and then refusing to allow them to stay in the US?
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoNo, what seems like a massive waste of our educational system is the notion that Federal tax dollars are going toward the higher education of non-citizens at the same time that millions of Americans either can't afford to go to school or are groaning under the weight of student debts. Odd that you should have missed that.
- cema 14y agoI think in the case of STEM grad schools the Federal money finally goes where the best return on investment is. Professors, not government, decide whom to hire, roughly speaking.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoThe best return for whom? For the Americans forking over tax money used for the employment and credentialing of people not from this country?