Report: Foreign Ph.D. Graduates Maintain Steady Presence in U.S. Workforce - Higher Education: There’s little doubt that immigrant Ph.D. graduates contribute mightily to the global preeminence of U.S. science and engineering research and innovation. A new study reveals that a significant proportion of immigrant Ph.D. recipients in science and engineering fields are finding opportunity and remaining in the U.S. for five years and longer following the completion of graduate school.
In “Stay Rates of Foreign Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities, 2011,” a report produced by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education (ORISE), the research shows that nearly two-thirds of foreign doctorates are continuing to stay in the United States 10 years after earning their Ph.D. The 2011 stay rate for all foreign science and engineering doctorate recipients, including those on permanent visas at graduation, was 68 percent for those graduating five years earlier and 65 percent for those graduating 10 years earlier. For those science and engineering graduates earning their Ph.D. in 1995, the 16-year stay rate was 61 percent.
