-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S …&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States. The foreign students more likely to stay in the US are those with … fellowships. Foreign students staying in the United States thus appear to be positively selected in terms of academic ability. We …

Britain have gained appeal in attracting postdocs, but not in attracting PhD students. Canada has made gains in neither …

Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions … process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at random, offering them ten hours of individualized college advising … have influenced the choice of where the students applied to college. We estimate that students offered counseling were 7 …