International students provide a key source of talent for U.S. employers and are crucial to enhancing the ability of U.S. universities to conduct research and offer high quality academic programs to U.S. students. International students also provide cultural and foreign policy benefits to the United States and are an important and inexpensive way to promote American ideas and values abroad.
Full-time Graduate Students and the Percent of International Students by Field (2010)
Electrical Engineering 70.3%
Computer Science 63.2%
Industrial Engineering 60.4%
Economics 55.4%
Chemical Engineering 53.4%
Materials Engineering 52.1%
Mechanical Engineering 50.2%
Mathematics & Statistics 44.5%
Physics 43.7%
Civil Engineering 43.7%
Other Engineering 42.1%
Chemistry 40.3%
Source:http://www.nfap.com/pdf/New%20NFAP%20Policy%20Brief%20The%20Importance%20of%20International%20Students%20to%20America,%20July%202013.pdf
Source:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/12/new-report-shows-dependence-us-graduate-programs-foreign-students#ixzz2Yq4OqIyQ