Enrollment Trends
Resources
Voices: Foreign Graduate Students
symmetry - March 2005 - "Should the United States be concerned with the drop in applications
and enrollment of foreign science graduate students? If so, why?"
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Catching Up in International Grad Students
Inside Higher Ed, Aug 2007. "Graduate schools are reporting a continued rebound in
applications from and admissions offers to those from outside the United States, but levels
at most institutions still have not reached 2003 levels, according to a report being released
today by the Council of Graduate Schools."
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Doctoral Student Enrollment Trends in Science and Engineering at Selected AAU Institutions, 1991-1995
by Rocco Russo, ETS. Detailed enrollment data show substantial drops in first-year enrollments in programs surveyed in biochemistry (down 29%), economics (down 41%), mathematics (down 34%), and mechanical engineering (down 41%). (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
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First-year Science & Engineering Graduate Enrollment Figures
Data from the NSF for 1990-1997. First-year S&E enrollments peaked in 1992 and have steadily declined ever since. 1997 enrollments are down 11.5% from 1992. Astronomy is down 22%, physics is down 25%, geosciences are down 10%, math is down 26%, chemistry is down 4%. Biology, on the other hand, is up 2%, with big increases in cell biology, genetics, and pathology. (Requires Microsoft Excel to read)
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International grad student applications on the rise
Engineering Science blog, August 2007.
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