The US produces more college degrees than any other nation, graduating around a million masters’ and conferring more than 200,000 doctorates every year. According to the US Census Bureau, since 2000, the number of people aged 25 and over whose highest degree was a masters has doubled to 21 million, and the number of doctoral degree holders has more than doubled to 4.5 million. About 13.1% of US adults now have an advanced degree, up from 8.6% in 2000. America has the world’s largest pool of brainiacs.
Foreign students, mostly from Asia and particularly from India, have driven this growth, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Any college campus can provide visual evidence of this, but here are some numbers. According to the National Science Board, for the first time in 2015, a majority of full-time graduate students in natural sciences and engineering were foreign-born: 58% per cent were from Asia, and India was the leading country of origin, accounting for 21% of all foreign-born science and engineering graduates; China was second with 10%.
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