I was, however, able to get the information I needed from Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin and The Ohio State University. Bucknell University and the University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis made their data available although they are not among the top host institutions for international students.
At Columbia, the percent of international STEM students was almost identical to the percent of international STEM professors, at 12 percent. However, at UIPUI, there were four times as many international professors as international students studying STEM disciplines. The same was true at Ohio State, and Bucknell and UT each had twice as many international professors to students.
With data from just five universities, I obviously can’t validate or disprove the claim that the presence of international STEM professors impacts the STEM degree attainment of international students. It’s an interesting question and one that should be studied more — provided that institutions choose to track such data and make the data available.
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