Now , with venture capital flows declining overall, cooler heads in the Valley are shifting bets to more business-oriented engineering and research-intensive fields more grounded in marketplace realities.

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Texas Tech, best known for its engineering and agriculture-oriented programs, for example, is thriving.

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As a University Technical College (UTC) it will offer technically-oriented courses for students specialising in engineering and environmental technology.

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Women are less likely to have degrees in growth-oriented fields such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

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One unfortunate trend with the growth of higher education has been an increasing emphasis on exam and grades oriented learning, fueled by the proliferation of competitive entrance exams for science, engineering, medicine, law, etc. and tutorial centres who compete to prepare the students for these exams.

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