Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
by luckydata on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:14AM
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Have you stopped for a second to consider WHY?
Maybe getting a PhD in the US is a huge waste of time because there's fierce competition for most academic jobs and scarce employment prospects?
Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
by sonabinu on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:56AM
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a PhD in CS is a golden ticket today
Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
by Kephael on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:21AM
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A PhD in CS is a waste of time in the vast majority of cases. If you're good you can join FAANG out of undergrad and you'll earn well over a million dollars pre-tax by the time the PhD would be finished.
That number sounded really high to me and I went looking for information to refute it. Turns out 50% may be a rather modest estimate today:
Foreign Students and Graduate STEM Enrollment https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...
> The report found 81 percent of full-time graduate students in electrical and petroleum engineering programs at U.S. universities are international students, and 79 percent in computer science are.
The Disappearing American Grad Student https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american...
> The dearth of Americans is even more pronounced in hot STEM fields like computer science, which serve as talent pipelines for the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft: About 64 percent of doctoral candidates and almost 68 percent in master’s programs last year were international students, according to an annual survey of American and Canadian universities by the Computing Research Association.