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Why the US is losing foreign graduates

March 20, 2009

The Wadhwa report is the fifth in a series backed by the Kansas City (Mo.)-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Written by four academics including Wadhwa, the report is based on a survey of 1,224 foreign nationals who are currently studying in institutions of higher learning in the U.S. or who had graduated by the end of the 2008 academic school year.

The publication itself says the study was not a true random survey and cannot be considered a representative sample. The survey comprised 229 students from China, 117 students from Western Europe, and 878 students from India.

Image: US President Barack Obama speaks at a meeting in Costa Mesa, California. | Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters