November 8, 2002

Study Counts Ph.D.'s of Foreign Students

By MICHAEL ARNONE

A study conducted by Georgia State University indicates that from 1990 through 1999, American universities awarded 1,215 doctorates in science and engineering to students from countries that sponsor terrorism, and that 147 of those degrees were in fields whose training could be used by terrorists for conventional or biological warfare.

According to the study, the degrees were awarded to foreign nationals of five countries that the United States has called state sponsors of terrorism:

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