Interesting Economic Indicator.

Stay rates for foreign Ph.D.s rebound after decline

For the past couple of decades, Mike Finn, an economist at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, has analyzed the "stay rates" of foreign nationals receiving their doctoral degrees in science and engineering in the United States.

His latest report, based on 2007 data, shows the foreigners are staying in the U.S. at an increased rate. Sixty-seven percent of foreign students graduating with doctorates in 2005 remained in the United States two years later. That's a 3 percent bump up from the previous report, which showed an uncharacteristic decline and sparked concern in some circles that the U.S. might losing a high-end job source that's important to the nation's economy.