[familyop]

Here’s a note of tenuously related interest.

American Brain Drain (U.S.-born Ph.D.s are hard to come by.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1933011/posts

[Myrddin]

My company has 7% PhD, 37% Masters, 56% Bachelors degrees. Disciplines are distributed as 48% sciences, 19% engineering, 20% business/law, 13% humanities. The last category looks goofy...until you consider the linguistics people involved in gathering intelligence. Those figures are for 2003. 90% of the employees work on direct charge contracts. The other 10% provide the necessary administrative umbrella to handle contracts, payroll, legal, real estate and other essential support services.