At some American foreign universities, students are the majority of doctoral students at faculties such as computer science. For example, at the University of Chicago, they included a stranger 57 percent According to data published by the school, newly saved computer science doctoral students last year.
Because foreign students often pay full tuition fees, they provide funds that schools can then operate to expand their programs. As a result, foreign born students generally do not operate the possibilities of education from Americans, but rather create more vending machines, according to A report Issued at the beginning of this month from the National Foundation for American Policy. Scientists from an impartial think tank estimated that every additional doctorate granted to a foreign student in the field of STEM is “associated with an additional doctorate awarded to a national student.”
Restricting student visas and a reduction in the number of foreigners studying computer science – will deeply affect the field in the United States – says Rebecca Willett, a professor at the University of Chicago, whose work focuses on mathematical and statistical foundations of machine learning. Willett adds that the movement “is able to exhaust an important pipeline of qualified professionals, weakening the American labor force and threatens the position of the nation as a world leader in the field of computing technology.”
Mehran Sahami, chairman of the Stanford University Department, describes changes in student visa policy as “production”. He refused to share how many foreign students are enrolled in the Stanford IT program, which includes both an IT program, which includes both graduate studies and bachelor’s studies.
“They add a lot to this and have for decades. It is a way to provide the states with the best and most talented minds to learn, and then finally contribute to the economy,” says Sahami. But now he is worried that talent “will be able to go to other countries.”
. The vast majority Doctorates from China and India say that they intend to stay in the United States after graduation, while most other countries, such as Switzerland and Canada, plan to leave.
STEM graduates who remain in the United States often work at American universities, private technology companies or become the founders of startups in the Silicon Valley. Immigrants assumed or co -founded Almost two -thirds The best AI companies in the United States, in accordance with the analysis of 2023 by the National Foundation for American Policy.
William Lazonick, an economist who widely studied innovations and global competition, claims that the US has experienced the influx of foreign students studying STEM disciplines since the 1980s, because fields such as microelectronics and biofarmaceuticals are undergoing a technological revolution.
At the same time, Lazonick says that he watched many American students who decide to career in finance instead of studying. “It is my reason that I am a member of the faculty at both public and private universities in the United States that foreign students implementing STEM were crucial for the existence of postgraduate programs in appropriate scientific and engineering disciplines,” says Lazonick.
Because the Trump administration is working on limiting the flow of foreign students and limiting the financing of federal research, governments and universities around the world have started complicated campaigns for court foreign students And American scientists, willing to take advantage of a occasional opportunity to gain American talent.
“Hong Kong tries to attract Harvard students. Great Britain creates scholarships for students,” says Shaun Carver, Executive Director of the International House, a student housing center in UC Berkeley. “They see it as a brain profit. And for us it is brain drainage.