Higher Education

Explore all the research, analysis, commentary, and data on immigrants' enrollment in colleges and universities; their tertiary education attainment; and the policies affecting their access to higher education.

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Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States: A Persistent Problem with Increasing Costs

Experts discuss findings from a report examining the underemployment of college graduates in the United States and explore the promising strategies that exist to mitigate this brain waste for the benefit of the U.S. economy.

Leaving Money on the Table: The Persistence of Brain Waste among College-Educated Immigrants

As of 2019, 2 million college-educated immigrants were underemployed in the United States, with race, English proficiency, and legal status the key predictors of this brain waste.

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Iran Loses Highly Educated and Skilled Citizens during Long-Running “Brain Drain”

Driven by repression, sanctions, and economic decline, Iran has lost highly educated workers in a brain drain that the World Bank estimates at $50 billion per year.

COVID-19 and the Demand for Labor and Skills in Europe: Early evidence and implications for migration policy

This brief analyzes how COVID-19 is reshaping European labour markets and what this means for skills investment and migration policy now and in the future.

International Students in the United States

The United States hosted 1.1 million international students as of the 2019-20 school year, but enrollment declined for the first time in years due to higher costs and Trump restrictions.

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Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States: Stable Numbers, Changing Origins

As of 2018, the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States held at 11 million, with origins shifting away from Mexico toward Asia and Central America.

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Immigration Data Matters

This useful resource collects in one place some of the top and most authoritative sources for often-sought U.S. and international data on immigrants and immigration trends.

Immigrant-Origin Students in U.S. Higher Education: A Data Profile

Immigrant-origin students, who were 28 percent of U.S. college enrollment in 2018, are growing fast and projected to drive U.S. labor force growth through at least 2035.

College-Educated Immigrants in the United States

Immigrants accounted for 17 percent of college-educated U.S. adults in 2018, yet nearly one in four worked below their credential level.

Brain Waste among U.S. Immigrants with Health Degrees: A Multi-State Profile

Some 263,000 immigrants with health degrees are underutilized due to licensing barriers—an untapped U.S. workforce that could help address COVID-19-era health-care shortages.