Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Indians still
mad for engineering despite threat to H1B visa
India is one
of the largest producers of engineers in the world. And they are one of the
major contributors of the success of America’s IT industry.
Nearly five million under graduate and post
graduate students were studying engineering and technology in 750 universities
and over 40,000 colleges in India in 2016, according to UGC India. And almost
1.6million engineers appear each year to the global market. Among them, over 126,000
were granted H-1B visa to the US, a ticket to work in the US for three years in
their field at an amount of salary they can hardly earn in their home country.
Accordingly,
to pursue higher income, status and future prospect, many students in India try
to get a ticket to study engineering and technology in top universities such as
the Indian Institutes of Technology, or IIT, which makes the enrolment much
more competitive than any other world-famous university, even Harvard or MIT.
Even though
the current US administration is going to limit the number of H-1B visas to
foreign talents, students in India are still looking at IT as the surest path
to success.
Enjoy reading
and thinking if you want to compete in the most competitive market.
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