At some American colleges, international students form the most PhD students in departments such as IT. At the University of Chicago, for example, foreign nationals accounted for 57 percent of the newly registered PHD -Students from the Computer Science last year, according to data published by the school.
Because international students often pay completely tuition fees, they offer financing that schools can then use to expand their programs. As a result, students born abroad generally do not take educational opportunities from Americans, but generally create more slots, according to a report that was released earlier this month from the National Foundation for American Policy. Researchers from the non -party -related think tank estimate that every extra PhD student awarded to an international student in a voice field “is associated with an extra doctorate awarded to a domestic student.”
Limiting student visa and reducing the number of foreigners who studies computer science “will deeply influence the field in the United States,” says Rebecca Willett, a professor at the University of Chicago, whose work focuses on the mathematical and statistical foundations of Machine Learning. Willett adds that the relocation “runs the risk of exhausting a vital pipeline of skilled professionals, weakening the American workforce and to jeopardize the position of the nation as a world leader in the calculation technology.”
Mehran Sahami, the chairman of the computer science department of Stanford University, describes the policy of the student visa policy as 'counterproductive'. He refused to share how many foreign students were registered in the computer science program of Stanford, including both graduated and not -graduated students, but he acknowledges that it is 'a lot'.
“They add a lot, and they have had for decades. It is a way to bring the best and smartest spirits to the US to study, and they eventually contribute to the economy,” says Sahami. But now he is worried that talent 'eventually goes to other countries'.
The vast majority of PhD students from China and India say they intend to stay in the United States after they have graduated, while the majority from some other countries, such as Switzerland and Canada, reports that they are planning to leave.
Graduates born abroad who stay in the US often start working at American universities, private technology companies or are starting founders in Silicon Valley. Immigrants have founded or co-founded almost two-thirds of the best AI companies in the United States, according to an analysis of 2023 by the National Foundation for American Policy.
William Lazonick, an economist who has studied extensive innovation and global competition, says that the US experienced an influx of foreign students who study voice disciplines from the 1980s such as micro electronics and biopharmaceuticals undergo a technological revolution.
In the same period, Lazonick says, he noted that many American students choose to start a career in finance instead of the hard sciences. “It is my feeling, because they are a faculty member at both public and private universities in the United States, that foreign students who are striving for voices have been crucial for the existence of graduated programs in the relevant science and engineering disciplines,” Lazonick tells Wired.
While the Trump government works to limit the stream of international students and to cut federal research financing, governments and universities around the world, extensive campaigns have launched for international students from the court and American scientists, who would like to take advantage of a rare opportunity to conquer American talent.
“Hong Kong tries to attract Harvard -Students. The VK sets up fairs for students,” says Shaun Carver, executive director of International House, a student center for students at the University of California, Berkeley. “They see this as a brain win. And for us it is a brain drain.”
