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Create More Opportunities for American Students
and Stop Subsidizing Foreign Graduate Students.
American science and engineering graduate students are being displaced by foreign students at an alarming rate. Our universities are propagating a myth that American students are not good enough to compete with foreign students. American companies are beginning to establish R&D centers in Asia because they cannot find enough American engineers and scientists. We subsidize most foreign Ph. D. students about $60,000 per year from federal taxpayer funded grants or as graduate student instructors. If we don’t start training American graduate students our jobs are all going to move overseas.
According to the National Science Board; http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/
The number of total foreign graduate students continued to increase through fall 2010, with all of the increase occurring in S&E fields.
Students on temporary visas earned high proportions of U.S. S&E doctorates and dominated degrees in some fields. They also earned large shares of the master’s degrees in S&E fields.
In the United States, about 4% of all bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2008 were in engineering. This compares with about 19% throughout Asia and 31% in China specifically.
In 2007, China overtook the United States as the world leader in the number of doctoral degrees awarded in the natural sciences and engineering.
Over the 20-year period from 1989 to 2009 the number of S&E doctorates earned by Chinese nationals increased nearly 6 times.
At major research universities, such as the University of Michigan, more than 81% of graduate students were supported as research assistants, fellowships or graduate student instructors. Most of this funding is from federal grants, tuition or state appropriations. Support includes tuition and a living expenses stipend. At the University of Michigan this amounts to over $60,000 per year or over $420,000 per doctoral student (average 7 years).
President Mary Sue Coleman has been a major supporter of increase enrolment of Chinese students and closer ties to Chinese universities. She wrote in a Forbes magazine Op/Ed piece entitled “Education without Borders”
“In Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan enrolls more Chinese students than any other American university.” http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/25/china-university-michigan-opinions-contributors-collaboration.html
On the University of Michigan website for the Center for Chinese Studies she writes;
“It is more important than ever to work with fellow educational leaders in China as we reshape our economies and societies and address common challenges.” http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/CCS/archives/2010/06/u-m_president_m.html
If the US taxpayers or Michigan taxpayers are paying to support a doctoral degree in science or engineering it should be for an American student first before we subsidize a foreign student.
Create More Opportunities for American Students
and Stop Subsidizing Foreign Graduate Students.
American science and engineering graduate students are being displaced by foreign students at an alarming rate. Our universities are propagating a myth that American students are not good enough to compete with foreign students. American companies are beginning to establish R&D centers in Asia because they cannot find enough American engineers and scientists. We subsidize most foreign Ph. D. students about $60,000 per year from federal taxpayer funded grants or as graduate student instructors. If we don’t start training American graduate students our jobs are all going to move overseas.
According to the National Science Board; http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/
The number of total foreign graduate students continued to increase through fall 2010, with all of the increase occurring in S&E fields.
- About 60% of all foreign graduate students in the United States in 2010 were enrolled in S&E fields, compared with 32% at the undergraduate level.
- Most of the growth in the number of foreign graduate students in S&E between 2009 and 2010 occurred in engineering and computer sciences.
- India and China were the countries of origin for nearly two thirds of the foreign S&E graduates in the United States in November 2010.
Students on temporary visas earned high proportions of U.S. S&E doctorates and dominated degrees in some fields. They also earned large shares of the master’s degrees in S&E fields.
- Foreign students earned 57% of all engineering doctorates, 54% of all computer science degrees, and 51% of physics doctoral degrees. Their overall share of S&E degrees was one-third.
- After a 64% growth from 2002 to 2008, the number of temporary residents earning S&E doctoral degrees declined by about 4% in 2009 to 13,400.
- In 2009, temporary visa students earned 27% of S&E master’s degrees, receiving 46% of those in computer sciences, 43% of those in engineering, and 36% of those in physics.
In the United States, about 4% of all bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2008 were in engineering. This compares with about 19% throughout Asia and 31% in China specifically.
In 2007, China overtook the United States as the world leader in the number of doctoral degrees awarded in the natural sciences and engineering.
Over the 20-year period from 1989 to 2009 the number of S&E doctorates earned by Chinese nationals increased nearly 6 times.
At major research universities, such as the University of Michigan, more than 81% of graduate students were supported as research assistants, fellowships or graduate student instructors. Most of this funding is from federal grants, tuition or state appropriations. Support includes tuition and a living expenses stipend. At the University of Michigan this amounts to over $60,000 per year or over $420,000 per doctoral student (average 7 years).
President Mary Sue Coleman has been a major supporter of increase enrolment of Chinese students and closer ties to Chinese universities. She wrote in a Forbes magazine Op/Ed piece entitled “Education without Borders”
“In Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan enrolls more Chinese students than any other American university.” http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/25/china-university-michigan-opinions-contributors-collaboration.html
On the University of Michigan website for the Center for Chinese Studies she writes;
“It is more important than ever to work with fellow educational leaders in China as we reshape our economies and societies and address common challenges.” http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/CCS/archives/2010/06/u-m_president_m.html
If the US taxpayers or Michigan taxpayers are paying to support a doctoral degree in science or engineering it should be for an American student first before we subsidize a foreign student.
