U.S. graduate students in STEM are mostly foreign
… Foreign students in university graduate programs, especially in science, technology, engineering and math fields, make up the majority of the student body in most research universities. … According to a 2017 New York Times article, about 80 percent of graduate students at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering are international. NYU may be an exception, but the article also cited a 2015 survey by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Record Examinations Board that 55 percent of all U.S. graduate students in mathematics, computer science and engineering are international students.
