Mr. Anonymous, You imply the U.S. considers "school leavers to be graduates" as an accepted truth. Preposterous! Please support that with a source or some proof. I am employed at a U.S. University and am dumbfounded by your assertion. Degrees only to Graduates. An interesting take by someone from afar, I long for an explanation. Peter ----------------------------------------- >>> frank@COLLINGWOOD.ME.UK 05/09/03 03:50PM >>> India creates in excess of 2 MILLION graduates a year. (By graduate, I'm talking about about university degreed people - Unlike the US, the rest of the world does not consider school leavers to be graduates). The Indian economy has no way of supporting these figures, so the cream go elsewhere. Centres of technical excellence, like Germany and Japan are closed to them, due to strict immigration laws, so they have to go to the second best, the US, UK, Oz, NZ........ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.