Foreign Students Displace Americans, Especially Minorities, in U.S. Universities

Edwin S. Rubenstein:

What affirmative action giveth, immigration taketh away.

That could easily be the subtitle of a report highlighting the lack of diversity among graduate students.

The study, "Diversity and the Ph.D.," published by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in May 2005, finds that only 7 percent of Ph.D. recipients in 2003 were U.S.-born Blacks or Hispanics —compared to 35 percent who were foreign students.

Nearly five times as many citizens of other countries earned U.S. doctorates as did black and Hispanic Americans (14,300 vs. roughly 3,000).

Diversity and the PH.D.

Dwindling Support

Filling the Racial Gap in Academia

Black Ph.D.s still underrepresented