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May 26, 2021
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From: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Subject: Global: A New Study Quantifies Colleges' Role in Attracting Global Talent

First Thought

Insights drawn weekly from Karin Fischer’s global-education newsletter, latitude(s). Subscribe here.

Colleges are an increasingly critical channel for talented immigrants to the United States, a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows.

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First Thought

Insights drawn weekly from Karin Fischer’s global-education newsletter, latitude(s). Subscribe here.

Colleges are an increasingly critical channel for talented immigrants to the United States, a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows.

The authors, researchers at Harvard and Yale, find that one in five entrepreneurs who start venture-backed companies in the U.S. are immigrants — and of that group, more than three-quarters came to America for college.

Over the past decade — the study looks at trends dating back to 1990 — a greater proportion of founders have come to the U.S. not just for graduate education but to earn undergraduate degrees. Of the study’s sample, 42 percent of immigrant founders came for undergraduate study and 37 percent for graduate programs. Just 22 percent of immigrant entrepreneurs came to the U.S. for work rather than education, the researchers found.

The new research underscores American colleges’ key role as a gateway for global talent, attracting and educating top students.

Read more from Karin in this week’s latitude(s).

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“Our mission is to take everything that we learned, every piece of research from the university, and to immediately apply it in the community. It’s not a one-way street; it’s what the community feels it needs.”

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Read Karin Fischer’s interview with Ensign in The Chronicle: “A College President Returns to Lead Where Education Is Imperiled.”

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