Yes, it's costing students a lot of money to get college degrees if they choose to attend the so-called first tier universities, without grants or scholarships. It's probably cheaper to attend the state universities here in California or their equivalence in the other states.
Also, I believe many computer companies, like Microsoft, hire many foreigners from India and elsewhere to fill their engineering staff. This trend will probably continue until there are enough American graduates who are qualified and willing to take the jobs available. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : The Russian graduates may not have had to pay for their education and the US ones are in the hole from college loans. The Russian ones will except less money and from my experience of working with Russian employees they are more specialized and can do some neat stuff. One of my employees told me they just sort out what you're going to be good at as a kid (and probably what you will enjoy doing) and then when you graduate put you in an office to see if you produce anything useful. But that was back in the Cold War era and probably not quite the same as the oligarch run Russia of today. My trouble with my Russian charges was getting them to understand deadlines. Same with ex-DOD programmers. On 09/14/2014 11:44 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Would you believe Russia is in the top spot? If true and their graduates can't find jobs in their own country, they would probably emigrate to the US. The US is a distant 5th place. To compete in the world market, the US must increase the number of college graduates in the near future. Otherwise, the government, more likely, will find eligible workers from more educated immigrants who can immediately fill the need of industries.
