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Fewer foreign students at grad schools Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10106112.htm http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10106112.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 05, 2004 Fewer foreign students at U.S. grad schools Associated Press A new survey indicates the number of foreign graduate students enrolling for the first time at U.S. universities is down 6 percent this year -- the third straight decline after a decade of growth. Educators worry that the trend is eroding America's position as the world's leader in higher education. The fall wasn't as steep as feared, considering applications last spring were down 32 percent. But the results of the survey, of 122 member institutions by the Council of Graduate Schools, still are alarming to educators. U.S. universities are highly dependent on foreign students for teaching and research help, particularly in the sciences and in engineering, a field in which foreigners make up 50 percent of graduate enrollment. ``If you took them out of the system, we would not be at the same point we are in many of our endeavors -- scientific endeavors and also economic growth,'' said Heath Brown, the council's director of research and policy analysis. More than two-thirds of schools reported some decline. The steepest drops were in business (12 percent), sciences/agriculture (10 percent) and engineering (8 percent). Experts believe that a major factor is the difficulty -- or at least perceived difficulty -- of getting student visas under tightened U.S. immigration policies. Other factors include anti-Americanism abroad, and increasing competitiveness from universities in India, China and Europe.

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