Chinese Applicants Flood U.S. Graduate Schools

[alp227]

More than ever, Chinese students have their sights set on U.S. graduate schools.

Application volume from that country rose 18% for U.S. master's and doctoral programs starting this fall, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools that provides a preliminary measure of application trends. Specific programs of interest include engineering, business and earth sciences.

That is on top of a 21% jump last year and a 20% rise in 2010—and is the seventh consecutive year of double-digit gains from China, according to the graduate-school industry group. Applications from China now comprise nearly half of all international applications to U.S. graduate programs.

China's expanding middle class has fueled an interest in expensive U.S. schools, as has corporations' interest in hiring local talent with Western exposure. As the quality of undergraduate institutions in China improves, more young people are also finding U.S. programs within reach. And as more Chinese students attend U.S. schools,burgeoning they encourage friends and colleagues to apply in what is called a "multiplier effect."

full: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304750404577319922446665462.html

[flamingdem]

1. I wonder how they work out their loans

... are they so loaded? Guess so.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Not quite the same thing, but I knew a couple of Saudi students in grad school

undergrad and grad plus expenses were paid for 100 percent by some company (oil, i'm guessing), and the deal was after graduation he had to go back and work for them...

[MD20]

2. Private Universities. ok! State Universities...NOOOOOO!

Quote from respondent in OP link!(Lauren Kurilchik)

" If these are private schools, do whatever you want. If these are taxpayer subsidized institutions, U.S. citizens come first, last and always or stop accepting all subsidies. I'm concerned about foreigners taking educational opportunities from Americans while U.S. taxpayers subsidize them"

I could not agree more...

[greymattermom]

3. we pay them 25K per year

Not a bad salary these days. We are flooded with Chinese and Indian applicants. They usually get a job, a degree and a visa. They also work long hours and don't complain. The only labs with lights on at night in our building are the ones with a lot of Chinese students and postdocs. It's an academic version of the H1B phenomenon with a catch. There are no jobs here for them in the long run. They have an option that American students don't. They can go back to where the money for science is now.

[Cal33]

4. Some years ago I read that in the tough college courses like engineering, physics,

chemistry, and sciences in general, most Americans stop at the Bachelor's level.
They work for a few years in their specialty, then go into Administration -- that's
where the money lies!

Half or more of the post-grad empty positions are filled by foreign applicants.
These empty spaces go begging for foreign students to fill them. I doubt it
that the situation has changed much.

Let's face it. Too many of us Americans think that the words money and happiness
are synonymous. It's sad, but these are the values of too many of us. It has
been this way from way back. This isn't anything new!

Let's take an example. We were the first nation to develop nuclear weapons
during WWII. But, would we have been the first ones if we didn't have the help
of top foreign scientists, like Enrico Fermi of Italy, Niehls Bohr of Denmark, Edward
Teller of Hungary...etc...?