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...students from developing countries say that they plan to go back home eventually, but only after they’ve established themselves in America. In the short run, at least, it seems that Harvard is a primary conduit for the 21st century’s version of the proverbial brain drain, or the relocation to the West of the developing world’s best and brightest...
...think it’s the University so much as the fact that you are living in the U.S. during very formative years, that build your networks here,” Schaefer says. “By being a very attractive place to study, the University is causing a brain drain after...
Yewhile the brain drain phenomenon is widespread, it’s far from an absolute rule. For reasons ranging from national loyalty to a distaste for American culture, Harvard students like Prichard are eager to leave. Especially for students from Westernized countries, a Harvard diploma can offer similar advantages at home as in America. According to Courtney S. Kirshner ’79, president of the Harvard Club of Ireland, the College’s 300 alumni living in Ireland and Northern Ireland “are in the highest tiers of their professions. A Harvard diploma gives immediate recognition...
...Brain Drain...
...international students really have a responsibility to their native countries? According to Assistant Professor of Sociology Jason A. Kaufman ’93, a comparative cultural sociologist, even the worst traditional cases of brain drain may not be so bad for less developed countries. By increasing the economic, cultural, and social linkages between first-world and third-world nations, he says, ex-pats in America can still be doing a service to their countries. “In many cases, those students who stay here end up sending business to their home countries, which is beneficial to them...