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Foreign-Born Earn STEM Degrees at Higher Rates than Native Citizens

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About a third of United States college graduates with engineering degrees are foreign-born, even though they account for just 16.5 percent of the U.S. population 25 and older, according to new data from the Census Bureau. Foreign-born people have about 27 percent of the degrees in computers, math, and statistics, and 24 percent of degrees in physical science.

An expert from Georgetown University's Center for Education and the Workforce told U.S. News reporter Danielle Kurtzleben that some of the gap comes from people born in countries that value STEM skills, such as China and India. Read her article to learn more about the study.

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We have many foreign professors / instructors who are working to keep it that way. It's the price America isw paying for all the good will we have (that btw is not appreciated in many quarters... if fact is used against us)

Dr. W of FL 1:49PM December 03, 2011

Americans for the most part aren't interested in doing the hard work necessary in engineering and science unless they are confident of job security, and the historic levels of immigration have destroyed job security. You can pretty much correlate the decline of US industry and technology with the historic levels of immigration of the last few decades, but correlation is not causation as we say in the tobacco industry on cigarettes and politically correct circles on immigration.

Luther of LA 10:53PM November 17, 2011

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