In business and administrative studies 83% of postgraduates were from overseas and in social studies it was 73%.

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In recent years, Microsoft has taken to plucking recruits straight from the university, which has the only fully American-accredited computer studies programme overseas.

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Technology guru George Gilder has not-so-facetiously suggested that when overseas graduate students complete their studies here, green cards should be embossed on their diplomas.

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He was among the first to understand that clinical research would be outsourced, that studies would move overseas to Asia, India, and Eastern Europe, and that drug companies would need outsourced sales.

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In the course of a long academic career, Achebe took up university posts in Nigeria and overseas, including teaching at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he was professor of Africana Studies, and Bard College in New York.

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