The report also revealed that about 25 % of students enrolled in graduate computer science were foreigners. However, these elite foreign graduates cannot contribute to the US as much as they once did, because of the stricter immigration policies adopted after the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks. Moreover, Indian engineering students in the US are increasingly choosing to return home, drawn by their own country's economic potential.
報導指出，全美主修電腦科學碩士以上的學生中，25 % 為外籍學生，但這些外籍菁英無法為美國所用，因為自從 911 恐怖份子攻擊事件發生後，美國移民政策趨嚴，而在美國唸書的印度籍理工學生，也因母國經濟的潛力，選擇回流。