[footoverhand]

As an American Electrical Engineering Master's graduate from one of the mentioned schools, the program I was in was flooded with international students (mostly from India, some from China, a few from Turkey).

What I found interesting is most of the Indian graduate students came for a masters, most of the Chinese graduate students came for a Ph. D. There were too few Turkish graduate students to make a generalization about.

I think this is good because most of the time, American's can earn nicely with their Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, so there's little incentive to pursue higher education. Having got a Master's in Electrical Engineering, I wouldn't recommend it as a way to further your career. The classes were interesting, but so far I haven't found a job that needed those specialized classes.

[yardie]

But what about all the jobs that require, absolutely require a Masters, and 5 years experience for an entry level position?

/s

[footoverhand]

Well there's a good chance that those job postings are created after they have the H1-B visa candidate already selected. List exactly the candidates "qualifications" so that no one is eligible. That way they can claim that there are no local engineers that can do this very specialized work.

/ns unfortunately...