According to the Council of Graduate Schools, temporary residents in 2010 comprised 45.3 percent of graduate students in engineering and 42.9 percent of graduate students in mathematics and computer science.
Some 80% of foreign doctoral students in science and engineering plan to stay there after graduation--up from 50% in 1985.
She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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When Hotz was fourteen, he beat thousands of students from more than sixty countries to reach the finals of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Mr. JEFF LANDY (Information Technology Association): There is recognition that the majority of students in our graduate level math, science and engineering programs are actually foreign nationals and we have two choices.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
Right now, only about a third of undergraduate students are graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math -- areas that will be crucial if we expect to complete the work that has been done by these folks and compete for the jobs of the future.
Dr Freeman estimates that in 1966 only 23% of science and engineering PhDs in America were awarded to students born outside the country.
This statistic has led to growing bipartisan support in Congress and during the presidential debates to staple a green card to the diplomas of all foreign students earning an advanced degree in science, technology, engineering and math.
He told that me that the U.S. needs to be able to compete with India and China in terms of inspiring and nurturing more students to pursue fields in engineering, medial research, and science.
Foreign students represent half of all U.S. graduate enrollments in engineering, math, and computer science.
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Patell, a business-school professor, consisted of thirty-seven graduate and three undergraduate students from thirteen departments, including engineering, political science, business, medicine, biology, and education.
According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.
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"We are a group of students and recent grads from Parsons, NYU-ITP and Cooper Union studying art, engineering, environmental science, and design, " said the Windchimes team.
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Right now, unfortunately, barely more than one in 10 of all undergraduate students are enrolled in what we call the STEM subjects -- science, technology, engineering and math -- areas that will be critical if America is going to compete for the jobs of the future.
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And over the next 10 years, with so many baby boomers retiring from our classrooms, we want to prepare 100, 000 new teachers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math -- fields that will give the students the skills they need for the jobs that exist in places like Intel.
Because fully 60% of all foreign born graduate students in the United States are presently immersed in obtaining degrees in the science and engineering fields.
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