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| ▲ | lisbbb 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| In 1996 I was at a top US university getting a master's and was the only white dude in most of the classes. There was a probability class that could have been taught in Mandarin if it hadn't been for me. |
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| ▲ | yodsanklai 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'd be curious to know the stats. My personal experience: I interviewed tons of candidates in the past few years for a big tech company, a small fraction are US citizens (at least from what I can tell from their resume). |
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| ▲ | narcotraffico1 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My compsci classes were 80% foreigners. Why? I'd guess because they pay full tuition and the schools love the money. |
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| ▲ | whatever1 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Not none, but very few in the stem fields (less than 40% from my estimates). Why would you pursue a PhD with a 25k/year stipend when you can just start a near 6-figure job and start paying off your student debt? Only the ones with financial freedom or commitment to research take the PhD pill. Or when you go through a recession and you want to delay the entry to the job searching market. |
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| ▲ | superdude12 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | This is exactly the problem with the system. If there are tons of foreigners willing to get grad degrees and work for a small salary increase over a bachelor’s, US students are not sufficiently incentivized to do graduate studies. | |
| ▲ | kelipso 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The percentage gets worse when you look at the top say 10% of PhD students. Go to AI/ML conferences and see who is presenting the papers; it’s almost all international students in US universities or students from outside the US. |
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