June 4, 1999

Do Graduate Programs in the Sciences Have Too Many Foreign Students?

To the Editor:

The reasons U.S. students are shunning science Ph.D. programs are easy to understand if you look at the numbers carefully ("In a Lab With No American Graduate Students, a Professor Stresses Assimilation" and "A University Uses Quotas to Limit and Diversify Its Foreign Enrollments," May 14).

Science careers just do not give adequate returns in terms of the time and effort that go into

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