Tag: higher-education
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China has more engineers both in absolute terms and per capita. America has far more lawyers. This imbalance extends to STEM PhDs. China produces more in absolute numbers, though not yet relative to population. But it is clearly heading in that direction.
If we normalize by population and limit to graduates from top-200 universities
America produces 4.7 times more STEM PhDs per capita than the best universities in China.
I think it is fair to treat university rank as crucial when it comes to research, since talent, funding, and lab resources are highly concentrated at a few institutions (not always correlated with rankings).Note, for education, this is much less true. Most universities teach roughly the same material. The main differences are peer group, credential value, and access to opportunity — none of which are the education itself.
Additionally, America brain drains the other nations
We retain 77% of international STEM PhD graduates in the long term.
However, there are still two questions at hand:
- What is the right ratio of makers to regulators?
- Which of our maker class needs PhDs?
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China has more engineers both in absolute terms and per capita. America has far more lawyers. This imbalance extends to STEM PhDs. China produces more in absolute numbers, though not yet relative to population. But it is clearly heading in that direction.
If we normalize by population and limit to graduates from top-200 universities
America produces 4.7 times more STEM PhDs per capita than the best universities in China.
I think it is fair to treat university rank as crucial when it comes to research, since talent, funding, and lab resources are highly concentrated at a few institutions (not always correlated with rankings).Note, for education, this is much less true. Most universities teach roughly the same material. The main differences are peer group, credential value, and access to opportunity — none of which are the education itself.
Additionally, America brain drains the other nations
We retain 77% of international STEM PhD graduates in the long term.
However, there are still two questions at hand:
- What is the right ratio of makers to regulators?
- Which of our maker class needs PhDs?