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To: Live2Sail who wrote (45371)	12/2/2005 10:03:01 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Live2Sail,re:"Good reason .. to go back to home country". Not true. A baby sister, or male nurse make more than going home. Maybe going back to work for opportunities, but not call it home. Have you really lived in China/India ? Not the expat's housing.

To: Live2Sail who wrote (45371)	12/3/2005 8:38:40 AM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 306849

>And, when China and India get their University system in good condition, the graduate student pipeline will shrink.> Chinese and Indian University system is pretty good for science and enginnering. Only a small percentage of Chinese and Indian students come to the US for just the quality of graduate school education. The graduate student route for the majority used to be an easier way to enter the US job market without having a huge amount of money. Most Indian and Chinese graduate students I knew had assets of less than $1000 when they arrived in the US. The H1B visa category effectively short circuited the whole process of entry into the US job market. This has not affected those Indian students who truly want the US graduate school education of their choice. However, those whose only goal was to enter the US job market, had an alternative way. Shift your profession to IT, ride the H1B wave, and get accepted in a decent US company. This was entirely due to the demand-supply situation for IT professionals in the US market. Students who were not IT majors, and who did not want to change their profession to IT, continued to come to the US through the graduate school path. The outsourcing wave to India will affect the availability of good science and engineering students for US graduate schools. Again, the IT market is driving the change. The salaries of IT professionals in India have climbed considerably and on a purchasing-power-parity basis are already better than United States. An ordinary IT professional in India with 3 years experience has an income in the top one percentile of all Indian workers. -Arun