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TABLE 21— FOREIGN COUNTRIES WITH MORE THAN 1,000 STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1970-71 



Number 

 Country 



Canada - -- 



India ._. - - 



China, Republic of. 



Hong Kong - 



Cuba — 



Iran — 



Thailand - .- 



Japan. 



United Kingdom... 



Korea, Republic of 



China, Unspecified > 



Philippines _ 



Mexico. 



Germany, Federal Republic of 



Israel. 



Nigeria — 



Colombia 



Pakistan _ 



France 



Greece.. 



Venezuela 



Jamaica 



Brazil 



Peru -- 



Turkey 



Italy _ 



Lebanon 



Vietnam, Republic of. 



United Arab Republic _ 



Australia.- 



> This category consists of those whose country of citizenship was given as China. (In many cases, these students are 

 residents of countries other than the Republic of China.) 



Source: Institute of International Education. "Open Doors, 1971: Report on International Exchange," New York, Septem- 

 ber 1971, p. 4. 



How many of these students would actually remain in the United 

 States cannot be determined with absolute accuracy from the available 

 data. Aspects of the problem as it bears on adjusted immigration status 

 are, however, discussed above on pages 66-67 and 70-71. If the 

 assumption of 20 percent loss through foreign students can be 

 accepted as valid, it is reasonable to estimate that some 29,000 of the 

 total 144,708 could be expected to remain in the United States. The 

 figure would be still higher (perhaps some 49,000) if the 18.5 percent 

 immigrant visa holders (26,732) could be assumed to remain as their 

 visa indicates and if 20 percent of the remaining total of foreign stu- 

 dents (22,595) were combined with it. 



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'^Tal K. Oh, Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business Administra- 

 tion and Economics at California State University, Fullerton, made a study of brain drain 

 from Asia using an extensive survey among all students from 6 Asian nationality groups 

 on the campuses of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Minne- 

 sota at Mlnneapolis-St. Paul In the spring semester of 1968. The groups surveyed were 

 from China, Hong Kong, Formosa, Japan, Korea, and India. Of the 100,262 foreign 

 students in the United States during the academic year 1967-68, there were 12,244 

 Chinese (including those from Formosa and Hong Kong), 7,518 Indians, 3,768 Japanese, 

 and 3,218 Korean.s — all of whom accounted for 26 percent of the total. Except for the 

 Japanese, estimates of nonreturnees among these groups tend to be particularly high. 

 ("Push" factors are not very prominent in Japan which ranks among the great industrial 

 powers of the world.) Usable returns from those surveyed numbered 657. Among the 

 respondents were 127 Chinese, 79 residents of Hong Kong, 49 Japanese, 72 Koreans, 248 

 Indians, and 82 Formosans. Undergraduates numbered 98, MA candidates 231, and Ph. D. 

 candidates 297. On the basis of this data, and assuming that the sample Is representative 

 and that the current causal factors remain constant, Professor Oh reached the following 

 conclusions : 



