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This is OnPoint. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world

come to the United States to study at American colleges and universities.

When they graduate with highly specialized and coveted degrees,

many of them want to live and work here. They want to stay here.

But only about 23% of foreign students who obtain master's degrees in the US end up staying.

And for those who get bachelor's degrees, that number is just 11%.

And remember, those numbers are far lower than the number of people who want to stay in the United States.

So why is the US training and educating so many people in jobs we so desperately need

and then just letting them leave?

In the meantime, countries like Canada, the UK, and Australia

are poaching these US trained and educated folks to work in places like London, Toronto, and Sydney.

Well, John Marcus is a higher education editor and reporter at the Heckenger Report.

And he's reported about this particular brain drain in an article headlined with new talent visas.

Other countries, lure workers trained at US universities.

And we've got a link to it at onPointradio.org.

And John joins us here in the studio today. Welcome to OnPoint, John.

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