By the numbers: China’s foreign-educated students are returning home

[haidian]

By the numbers: China’s foreign-educated students are returning home
Erica Pandey Jul 30

By the numbers: In the early 2000s, only one or two of every 10 Chinese students studying abroad returned to China after graduation. In 2017, around eight in 10 students chose to go back home.

• Worth noting: The trend of Chinese students going abroad for degrees isn't slowing down.

What's happening:

• China's job market is strong, and there are plenty of opportunities for recent graduates — especially if they are willing to work in some of China's smaller cities, per Quartz. However, the job search can still be difficult in some high-tech sectors, Axios' Steve LeVine reports.
• The Chinese government is offering incentives, like allowances, housing and health care benefits, to lure graduates back home, reports the Economist.
• At the same time, Western countries are cracking down on immigration. And the United States — a top destination for Chinese students — is making it harder for students to stay in the country after graduation.

Go deeper: Foreign students have begun to shun the United States.
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[TaiShang]

• China's job market is strong, and there are plenty of opportunities for recent graduates — especially if they are willing to work in some of China's smaller cities, per Quartz. However, the job search can still be difficult in some high-tech sectors, Axios' Steve LeVine reports.

• The Chinese government is offering incentives, like allowances, housing and health care benefits, to lure graduates back home, reports the Economist.

• At the same time, Western countries are cracking down on immigration. And the United States — a top destination for Chinese students — is making it harder for students to stay in the country after graduation.

The newspaper skips another critical component:

The US is too unsafe. Once out of Mainland/Taiwan, one gets to miss the safety and security of public space.

Besides, quality education is declining in the US if one is not registered in a top notch program.

 

[oprih]

Since america is basically a giant shithole nowadays it's only logical for these graduates to return to their prosperous home country full of opportunities China.

 

[Viet]

Since america is basically a giant shithole nowadays it's only logical for these graduates to return to their prosperous home country full of opportunities China.

They return home because they can’t find a job in America.

No job means no money no permission to stay.

A waste of money. Most of them can throw their earned degrees into the next trash bin.

 

[Feng Leng]

They return home because they can’t find a job in America.

No job means no money no permission to stay.

A waste of money. Most of them can throw their earned degrees into the next trash bin.

Only places like Vietnam and India have no local job prospects to retain top talent

China is approaching Japan when it comes to well paid job opportunities for its talented young people

 

[Viet]

Only places like Vietnam and India have no local job prospects to retain top talent

China is approaching Japan when it comes to well paid job opportunities for its talented young people

Ok, can a top talent earn as much as in America, Germany and Japan?

 

[TaiShang]

Since america is basically a giant shithole nowadays it's only logical for these graduates to return to their prosperous home country full of opportunities China.

Opportunity is one of the key terms. Safety is another.

These two are driving China's high school graduates back home.

Not just that, experts and long-term employees are also returning.

China still cannot provide better perks than top US institutions (they simply splash money), but is getting there.

 

[Feng Leng]

Ok, can a top talent earn as much as in America, Germany and Japan?

Yes but only Chinese allowed. No Viets or dogs. Thank you.

 

[Viet]

Yes but only Chinese allowed. No Viets or dogs. Thank you.

No insult please. You can sugarcoat on everything but in reality most returnees are just loser. Unable to find a job in the country they study.

Chinese seem to give up quickly. I still work as engineer in the field I studied despite many periods I was jobless, while my Chinese university comrade was fired once, now works as inporter of cheap stuffs from China.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Again, this is a highly misleading stat.

This stat doesn't account for the fact that the kind of Chinese students going abroad has completely changed in the past 2 decades.

For example, most of the Chinese students heading out, in 1990s, did so on their own merit, and were highly meritorious.

Today, however it has become like tourism, with people simple inable to get a decent college in China heading out.

Also, the degrees have changed. Earlier it were people largely from STEM, but today there are loads and loads of people in Arts, Humanities, Business etc.

So, the better estimate will be how many STEM PhDs/MTechs, from top American Universities (probably in top 30) make it back to China.

 

[TaiShang]

At the moment, China government has been actively encouraging students to go overseas. For this, it gives big sums of scholarships (some go as exchange but some also go to complete their studies in the overseas and graduate there). I guess this shows confidence that those who are sent over will eventually return.

In Mainland China, as I noticed, any student that really wishes to experience overseas study and life will be given a chance. It is difficult not to get scholarship from the CSC.

 

[haidian]

Now 8 out of 10 Chinese students choose to come back to China after they graduate in US, in 5 years the number could be over 9 out of 10, US now is more and more dangerous and gun violence is becoming prevalent, mass shootings happen on monthly basis if not weekly now.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

And this is the so called bankrupt china in one year by western media!