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Thomas Mullinazzi, associate dean of engineering, said that 43 percent of the students in KU's graduate program in engineering were foreign. He said that U.S. students were not continuing into graduate school in engineering because startling salaries were high for undergraduates.
"When you offer $20,000 to $30,000 to an undergraduate, it's hard to keep them. Pure economics. On the other hand, higher degrees to the foreign student are more important, whether they stay in this country or go back home," Mullinazzi said.
Richard Givens, chairman of the chemistry graduate admissions committee, said that 30 percent of the chemistry graduate program was foreign. However, he said, the number of foreign students in the program seemed larger because of a decline in U.S. students.
"In general, from 1970 to now, there's been a downswing of domestic students going into the graduate programs. Currently, there's a shortage of good, qualified graduates in chemistry." Givens said.
Goldhammer, of the physics graduate admissions committee, said that U.S. students often don't continue on to graduate work in physics because of problems in education. Students out of high school in the United States, he often not trained for college work. This inexperience dissuades them from pursuing higher studies in their fields.
"Because of this, there will be a crunch in the job market in sciences and other fields in the 1990s," he said. "Foreign students go back to their own country. Things are going to be bad across the board. There will be great shortages of scientists and professors."
Currently, 40 percent of the graduate program in physics is foreign, he said.
The predicted shortage in the 1990s will affect the math departments in the United States the most, according to a 1985 article in Science magazine.
Bunce said that the reasons for the large numbers of foreign students differed from nation to nation. European students come to the United States because they find not enough space at their universities, and students from the rest of Europe study from the unrest in their own country. However, most foreign students study here for the quality of education, he said.
Coan said that through his work with foreign student services, he had found that many foreign students come to KU because friends from the same country have attended the University.
Another attraction is the price. The tuition at KU is low compared with other U.S. universities, he said. Unlike some U.S. universities, KU does not recruit overseas.
William Sy, a graduate student in engineering from the Philippines, said that the research facilities at U.S. universities attracted him and his friends to colleges in the United States.
"Research facilities at home are not as extensive as they are here," Sy said. "University in the Philippines doesn't do as much research as they do here.
Givens, of the chemistry graduate admissions committee, said, "The demand by industry is still high. Students out of graduate school can expect between $36,000 and $40,000 (in industry). If the student teaches at KU, he will get about $28,000. The foreign students go back to their own country; there's a shortage here."
Barbara Turington, assistant to the president of international education of the American Council on Education, said that in some programs around the country, foreign students were keeping graduate schools alive. This, she said, secures the future of the graduate programs for U.S. students.
Bunce said that it would be very difficult for KU's math department to survive if 40 percent of the graduate school were taken away. None of the graduate courses, he said, would have enough enrollment to justify teaching the courses.
KU professors and administrators currently are searching for solutions to that problem.
Woodyard said that the office of academic affairs organized a program Nov. 18 for people interested in continuing on to graduate school. The program, intended for seniors, involved a presentation and a discussion of the opportunities in graduate programs and in teaching at the college level. he said.
Other departments have started offering inducements, such as scholarships, to domestic students, Goldhammer said.
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