S&E doctorate recipients from U.S. universities completed their undergraduate education at a wide variety of types of institutions in the United States and abroad. A large proportion of individuals earning S&E doctorates from U.S. universities had undergraduate degrees from foreign institutions: 37% in 2006, up from 28% in 1997.Comment: Bringing PhD students to the U.S. for their graduate education results in enrichment of our domestic scientific and technological capabilities while they are here and by those who stay, and builds important international scientific and technological linkages to those who return to their original countries.
The detrimental impact of the post 2001 policies of the Bush administration on foreign student enrollment probably is not fully evident in the 2006 PhD numbers, since a science or engineering doctorate often takes five years or more. JAD
P.S. The following chart in interesting in showing how superior are the 50 small, private baccalaureate colleges termed the "Oberlin 50" in sending their students on to doctorates in the Social Sciences. JAD
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