Where are all the students? | Nature

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Last week saw a two-day round-table meeting on government, university and industrial research take place at the National Academy of Sciences

in Washington. At the end of the session, Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of North Carolina State University, spent 22 minutes summarizing both the problems and the possible solutions facing the

US science and engineering workforce. One phrase she used repeatedly neatly encapsulates both — effort versus reward. Fox noted that the number of US-born students entering graduate

programmes in science and engineering has been slipping steadily for years. That hadn't been much of a problem until recently, because scientists from other countries readily filled the

gap. But now there are signs that more foreign-born scientists trained in the United States are returning home. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS

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