Martyn Prigmore
Are foreign students the ‘best and brightest’?: Data and implications for immigration policy. The technology industry, in lobbying Congress for expansion of programs to attract skilled foreign workers, has long claimed that foreign students graduating from U.S. universities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are typically “the best and the brightest,” i.e., exceptionally talented innovators in their fields.
However, the industry and its supporters have offered little or no evidence to back up their assertion. The claim is investigated in this report, with a focus on former foreign students now working in the United States, the group viewed by the industry as key to innovation. Microsoft Virtual Academy - Free Microsoft Technologies Training.
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