Graduate school has become an immigration scam.
Foreign grad students get an F1 OPT “practical training” visa which allows them to work in the US for one year. If their degree is in a STEM discipline they can get extensions to three years.
By that time they’ve either found an H1B sponsor or they just go back and take another Masters Degree from some fly-by-night school to start the F1 clock over again.
It’s a huge open back-door to our immigration system, and a gigantic money-printing scam for the universities.
The UC system is perfect:
they get to rob the taxpayers at writ large, then the kids they accept from overseas have to pay full fare, in order to subsidize the almost negligible tuition for kids of politicians.
so UC get a money double whammy, a public entity run like a business.
Graduate Engineering Programs at The Ohio State University and Purdue are almost 100% Chinese - Foreign Students pay full tuition - it is a profit center for the schools.
My son graduated with his Chemical Engineering degree from Purdue in 2015. From what I saw of his commencement ceremony, which was only grads from the School of Engineering, this article is quite true (although there were as many Asian as American undergrads getting degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering). And if you subtracted the black students whose names indicated they were from Africa, there were less than 20 black graduates in a ceremony for about 1000 engineering students, none of them in Nuclear or Chemical Engineering.
What is financial engineering?
When I went to engineer grad school as a white male...
For the first time in my life I actually was awarded lots of scholarships and dollars!
Americans are disappearing from graduate schools for two simple reasons:
1. In many fields, it's a waste of money and doesn't make you any more employable than you were with a bachelor's degree.
2. In fields like mine, there's no huge incentive to attend graduate school because you can make a good salary even with an undergraduate degree. In fact, I don't value someone who pursues a full-time master's degree in my field. They're 2-3 years behind their peers in terms of work experience, and they always seem to be the most impractical employees when it comes to working in the real world.
a master’s degree in financial engineering....According to Brazile that is what the Clintons have.
My guess is that all these foreign grad students entered the country legally; got an excellent education in their countries rather than the pap taught in our public schools grade one through college. The misinformation, intimidation, viciousness, of social media, wasting hours of real learning to gain what?...brain dead generations who will fail in competition with brighter and harder working people from around the world...and sadly procreate future generations and knowing little better, raise equally brain dead children.
Back when I went to school (60s) foreign governments sent their brightest student to USA because there were no better colleges than those here. Many of those students chose to remain in the USA because of $$$$ salaries. Since then I think many US student choose law and medical degrees for the same reason....$$$$$$. STEM degrees require as much hard work and not nearly competitive salaries.
I went to graduate school back in the 90s, and I was the only American grad student in the department, to the best of my recollection.
For that matter, when I was an undergrad back in the 70s, I worked with three post-docs in a chemistry lab and then in the engineering lab. Even back then, two out of the three were from other countries.
Universities are the arsenals of cultural destruction. In that they are resembling Mosques.
In Jindal's case, his mother was already pregnant when she came here.
In Harris' case, her parents married after graduating and had a baby a year later.
-PJ
American universities prioritize foreign students over American students.
The AMERICAN graduate student is being replaced by foreigners. This has been going on for a long time.
I received an NIH pre-doctoral and later post-doctoral fellowship for Medicinal Chemistry graduate studies. These were not offered to foreign graduate students.
Masters in financial engineering?
The Nigerian kids must really go for this.