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pappu
07-30-2010, 11:23 AM
July 29, 2010

State Graduation Data | CompeteAmerica (http://www.competeamerica.org/state/state-data)


Stop the Diploma Drain!
America Can’t Afford to Lose Top Grads

It is counterproductive for the United States to train foreign-born scientists and engineers in our colleges and universities and then send them abroad to compete against American businesses.

Carnegie Mellon University
> 51 out of 80 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (64%)

Cornell University
> 76 out of 144 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (53%)

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
> 193 out of 363 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (53%)

University of Florida
> 119 out of 180 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (66%)

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
> 142 out of 255 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (56%)

Purdue University
> 153 out of 218 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (70%)

Stanford University
> 128 out of 247 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (52%)

Texas A&M University
> 146 out of 184 total engineering Ph.D.s were awarded to foreign nationals (79%)

What’s the Diploma Drain at Schools in Your State? Click here and find out!

(All data represent the 2008-2009 academic year as presented in “Engineering and Technology Degrees 2009,” American Association of Engineering Societies)

Compete America supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform that includes a permanent fix to the arbitrarily low quotas and massive backlogs that currently plague the U.S. visa system for highly educated foreign professionals.

To learn more about how America benefits from a highly educated workforce, visit: CompeteAmerica (http://www.competeamerica.org).


Compete America (CompeteAmerica (http://www.competeamerica.org)) is a coalition of corporations, educators, research institutions and trade associations concerned about legal, employment-based immigration and committed to ensuring that the United States has the highly educated workforce necessary to ensure continued innovation, job creation and leadership in a worldwide economy.