安全与新兴技术中心：2022国际STEM博士毕业生的长期留任率（英文版）（20页）.pdf

1、 April 2022 The Long-Term Stay Rates of International STEM PhD Graduates CSET Issue Brief AUTHORS Jack Corrigan James Dunham Remco Zwetsloot Center for Security and Emerging Technology|1 Executive Summary This issue brief examines how many international STEM PhD graduates choose to stay in the Unite

2、d States after earning their degrees and explores how those graduates navigate the U.S.immigration system.Our analysis is based on data collected through the National Science Foundations(NSF)Survey of Doctorate Recipients(SDR),a survey that collects information on the demographics and employment tre

3、nds of PhD graduates from U.S.universities(see Box 1 for details).We found that a large majority of foreign nationals who earn STEM PhDs in the United States remain in the country many years after graduating.Specifically,we found that:1.Long-term stay rates are high.As of February 2017,roughly 77 pe

4、rcent of the more than 178,000 international STEM PhD graduates from U.S.universities between 2000 and 2015 were still living in the country.2.Stay rates remain high even among older graduates.Since 2000,at least 65 percent of every years graduating class has stayed in the United States,and since 20

5、04,no graduating class has had a stay rate below 73 percent.3.Stay rates are similar across STEM fields.Though stay rates for different fields vary across individual years,no one STEM discipline has consistently higher or lower stay rates than the others.4.Chinese and Indian nationals account for ne

6、arly half of all international STEM PhD graduates in the United States,and most stay long after graduation.In February 2017,approximately 90 percent of Chinese nationals and 87 percent of Indian nationals who completed STEM PhD programs in the United States between 2000 and 2015 were still living in