Dive Brief:
- The latest numbers on applications to U.S. graduate schools appear to show that student loan debt is limiting the number of applicants from the U.S.
- While non-U.S. student enrollment in graduate programs is up 8 percent from last year, the number of U.S. grad students is unchanged.
- More than half of the non-U.S. grad students study engineering, science and business, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Dive Insight:
The graduate school application and enrollment numbers come from a report to be released today by the Council of Graduate Schools. While graduate students make up only 14 percent of total university enrollment, they carry 40 percent of the student debt load. The number of Chinese graduate students plateaued in 2012 after several years of strong growth, while the number of graduate program admissions offers to Indian students increased 30 percent and 24 percent in the last two years.
