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From: wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (Will Bralick)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: "Shortage" of American Grad Students
Message-ID: <1104@afit-ab.arpa>
Date: 17 May 89 01:22:20 GMT
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In article <24490@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@heather.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:
)In article <2857@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
)
)>Foreign students are almost
)>always fully funded by their home country.
)
)At least for CS, EE, etc., this is NOT the case.  In fact, even those
)who do have support offered to them by their home government often
)refuse it, so as not to be obligated to return after graduation.

Shucks, and I thought we were exporting education.  :-)

Regards,

-- 
Will Bralick                          |  ... when princes think more of
     wbralick@blackbird.afit.af.mil   |  luxury than of arms, they lose
     wbralick@afit-ab.arpa            |  their state.
with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |             - Niccolo Machiavelli