38% rise in Indian students going to the US

The Times of India ^ | 9 June, 2008 | Daniel P George & Hemali Chhapia

[rightwinggoth]

yep, these guys and chinese nationals will be hard at work making sure our nuclear power plants run safely without fear of sabotage or terrorist attack

[a_chronic_whiner]

And they are all majoring in engineering, lol. I walk around our engineering building at school these days and half the faces I see are Indian.

[1rudeboy]

That’s because they’re not afraid of mathematics and hard science. We used to teach those in high school also, once upon a time.

[MinorityRepublican]

bttt

[libh8er]

America now accepting the three-year bachelor degree programme as a valid one for entry to their graduate schools.

Interesting. Are American colleges that strapped for cash? I know tuition for foreign students are astronomically high.

[billybudd]

Um, what the heck do you mean by that?

[libh8er]

We used to teach those in high school also, once upon a time.

..but today we teach them about the perils of global warming, and conflict resolution and loss of polar bear habitat..

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

The Indians are good at growing maze, they also are good at making fishing nets

[CarrotAndStick]

Most take long-term loans from Indian banks, and pay back when they get high-paying jobs in America, or India, after they graduate.

[NRA2BFree]

We send all of our good paying jobs to India, causing millions of Americans to be out of work. Since Indians can now afford to send their kids to American universities their numbers are increasing very fast. All because they make enough money with those American jobs to be able to afford our universities. Since Americans lost their jobs to India, they can’t afford to send their kids to our universities. Seems like a fair trade, doesn’t it? Ain’t globalism grand? < /sarcasm >

[apt4truth]

That’s because they’re not afraid of mathematics and hard science. We used to teach those in high school also, once upon a time.

Please stuff it with your put downs of Americans. Americans are going into fields that are profitable for them, that is called being smart, not being intellectually lazy.

[1rudeboy]

And what fields would those be? Please specify whether we are talking about college or grad school graduates. And stuff it with your hyper-sensitivity.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Since Americans lost their jobs to India, they can’t afford to send their kids to our universities.

Funding isn't the reason. The reason is that American students do not want to take science and engineering majors.

Even the white and Hispanic students who'd been in sophomore year Linear Circuits, Physics, and Linear Algebra were gone when junior year rolled around and we started Data Structures, Compiler Construction and other CE courses. They'd all headed for the Econ department or something else. There was exactly one white girl left in any of my junior year computer courses, maybe 6 white guys, no blacks, no Hispanics. The rest were Indians and Asians - some first and second gen Americans, some immigrants, most of them very good. Courses graded on the curve were tough.

[muleskinner]

Stuff this. 1Rudeboy is correct. Males in India are encouraged to take the hard sciences, they know that’s how to improve India, make their parents proud, and make good dough. For the most part,they are intelligent, down to earth people who have an excellent cuisine. They abhore slackers and slackerism. They add wealth to whatever nation they call home.

[1rudeboy]

I've researched this subject up, down, and sideways for years. I do not tolerate excuses made for the utter failure of our high-school system.

We used to laugh that our engineering students couldn't read or write . . . and that was ok, because they had the discipline to hit the books and look at equations. Now, our readers and writers can't read or write. Wake up, people.

[Cronos]

not only that, but the media’s portrayal of smart people as objects of derision make most kids NOT WANT to study. Think of such things as Erckle etc.

[Cronos]

Please stuff it with your put downs of Americans. Americans are going into fields that are profitable for them, that is called being smart, not being intellectually lazy.

No, that's not what he meant -- American schools are dumbed down now, that is the problem. There are plenty of smart American students, but they succeed either because they are privately schooled or home schooled.

[BBell]

Here we have one American of Indian descent who has been an over achiever all his life.

He may be our hope for the future of this Country.