“Ever heard of IIT? Probably the best engineering school on Earth, and IIT grads are some of the world’s biggest movers and shakers. IIT applicants who can’t quite make the cut frequently end up at MIT and Stanford. There are excellent engineering schools all over the world, not just in the US.”

Sure have! Worked with a few grads at AT&T and Bell Labs. Until recently, the majority of them were emigrating to the states. Was quite the scandal in India, as its a state-funded uni!

While it is indeed a great school, world-class in fact, it still can’t compare to our domestic educational offerings. It’s like rolling a few of our top engineering schools into one giant institution and closing everything else except for the community colleges.

Beyond that, the IIT grads are either moving out of india, or demanding salaries that are not attractive to western companies looking for dirt cheap labour.

My personal opinion of the current dearth of engineering students is that its simply due to economics. Why bother investing in four-six years of intense school work in order to get a grueling engineering gig? That starts at less than 100k to boot?

Especially when you can become a realtor with literally only hours of prep work and then make 10k a week selling houses from one flipper to another. Not to mention the dozen or so investment properties you have on the side, paid for with low-interest/no money down loans.