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A brief look at … Mexico

The PIE News

In the past seven years, there has been a 175% increase in Mexico’s international student population – which stood at 20,322 international students in 2017. The largest proportion of Mexico’s international students come to study engineering, followed by physical & life sciences and mathematics & computer sciences.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

The AIHC was launched by Kent Smith in 2017. Kent Smith, PhD, associate dean and professor, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science at OSU-CHS and the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

Graduate student enrollment, which boomed during the pandemic, decreased for the first time since 2017, declining 1.2 Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0,

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Aus: PhD visa delays ‘damaging reputation’

The PIE News

Iranian student Hamed received an offer for a PhD course in electrical engineering from an Australian university. I am worried that we’ll see a decline in our ability to recruit top PhD students in the coming years,” said Clément Canonne, a computer science lecturer at the University of Sydney. .

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.