If you are a PhD student in America, there’s a good chance that your undergraduate degree came from Tsinghua University in China. That’s because Tsinghua and Peking Universities are now the top feeder schools for American PhD programmes…. The increasing dominance of Chinese doctoral students does add to the popular perception that America will someday suffer a shortage of scientists and engineers.
Plenty of companies, including Microsoft, have complained that they’re suffering because they can’t get visas for all the highly educated personnel they want to hire. But one group is benefiting from their troubles: Canadian employers. The immigration website for Alberta, Canada is advertising the province as an alternative, permanent home to those frustrated by the temporary U.S. H1-B visa.
