Undergrad degrees aren&#x27;t the same because the employers that (ab)use the H1B&#x2F;OPT program only really want masters graduates because it avoids having to declare being an H1B dependent which comes at a cost employers don&#x27;t want to bear. This is why you have universities like UT Dallas (not to single them out, this is the fact at nearly all universities I&#x27;m familiar with, it&#x27;s just that UT Dallas are one of the few that publishes demographic data) with nearly 100% of its cs graduate students being foreign. It&#x27;s a nice little system that works out for education institutions and employers but with definite costs to pretty much everyone else.