Georgetown CSET report: nearly half of US STEM award winners foreign-born as visa tightening threatens talent pipeline
Key points
- Of 471 award winners who had been in the US, 223 (about 47%) were foreign-born
- About two-thirds of those with traceable entry routes arrived as students
- The article warns tighter F-1 and H-1B rules and higher OPT costs could damage the talent pipeline
A September 2026 Georgetown CSET brief reviewed 550 winners of the Nobel, Lasker, Turing and MIT TR35 awards. Of 471 who had been in the US, 223 (about 47%) were foreign-born, and about two-thirds of the 184 with traceable entry routes arrived as students. The article warns that tighter F-1 and H-1B rules and higher OPT costs could damage the talent pipeline.
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