Thursday, December 29, 2005

The Good News for Engineers: America still No. 1

The Duke University in North Carolina has carried out a study that counters conventional wisdom with regard to the reported decline in America's competitiveness vis-à-vis India and China.

''In an apples-to-apples comparison, the United States actually graduates more engineers than India, and the Chinese numbers are misleading. On a per capita basis, the United States still has a strong lead as it graduates over 750 engineers per million, India graduates only 200 engineers per million and China graduates 500 per million of population,'' the study said. (Read Full)

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