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Fewer International Students Coming to .s. For Grad School in Science and Engineering
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International student enrollment in graduate science and engineering programs in the United States dropped in 2017 after several years of increases.
Science and engineering fields saw a 6% decrease in international graduate students from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017, and almost all of that decrease was concentrated in two fields: computer science and engineering.
This follows steady increases from 2005 to 2015 and comes at a time when demand for tech workers outstrips supply — and foreign-born students are increasingly filling a gap left by declining numbers of American citizens studying science and technology at the graduate level.
The figures were released in the 2018 Science and Engineering Indicators report from the National Science Foundation's governing body, the National Science Board. The report doesn't try to explain why enrollment numbers dropped.
From USA Today
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