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The Disappearing American Grad Student
New York Times ^ | November 3, 2017 | NICK WINGFIELD

Posted on 11/06/2017 7:59:55 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie

There are two very different pictures of the students roaming the hallways and labs at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.

At the undergraduate level, 80 percent are United States residents. At the graduate level, the number is reversed: About 80 percent hail from India, China, Korea, Turkey and other foreign countries.

For graduate students far from home, the swirl of cultures is both reassuring and invigorating. “You’re comfortable everyone is going through the same struggles and journeys as you are,” said Vibhati Joshi of Mumbai, India, who’s in her final semester for a master’s degree in financial engineering. “It’s pretty exciting.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; college; collegegraduates; debt; engineering; foreigners; highereducation; immigration; obama; obamalegacy
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