> The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreig

> The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreign nationals we want participating in the US economy. most smart companies that use the H1-B visa program only hire those with masters degrees. This does 2 things: - They can first bring them on as "interns" under the F1 visa, which can be extended quite a bit. They are paid peanuts while the firms weed out the absolute duds. - This avoids the requirements on firms for extra reporting if a certain percentage of their staff are H1-B don't have masters degrees. This creates a nice little loophole where smaller colleges have massive massive STEM programs with an insane majority being foreign students. The students get their foot in the door to play the game and the colleges get paid. Take UT Dallas for example: http://ecs.utdallas.edu/academics/assessment-docs/2014/2014%20Fall%20ECS%20Enrollment.pdf http://ecs.utdallas.edu/academics/assessment-docs/2014/2014%... The CS Masters program is bigger than the CS undergrad program, only 4% of graduating CS undergrads are international, where as 93% of FT CS Masters students are international. That should be odd to anyone.