<p>What do international students who go to US for university do after that? Do they usually find a job in US or do they move back to their country?</p>
<p>Some work in the US, some go to grad school in the US (often because they want to stay in the US but can’t find a job), some go to grad school in another country (usually not their home country), some go home.</p>
<p>If your goal is to stay and work in the US after college, I’d urge you to select an employable major and be very aggressive in your career-building. (Hint: don’t major in the liberal arts.) An employer has to go through a lot of trouble to hire foreign workers and that’s rarely worth it for entry-level positions, unless you bring something exceptional to the table. (The “trouble” include several thousand dollars in processing fees, maintaining paperwork to document that hiring foreign workers does not have a negative impact on the domestic employees, and paying you an above-average wage for your position.)</p>
<p>Even if you have a job offer and an employer willing to sponsor you, you may not qualify for a work visa due to circumstances out of your control. There have been years in the past decade where it was literally impossible for new college graduates to receive a work visa. (There’s a yearly cap on the number of work visas issued. New college graduates cannot apply for a work visa until their degree has been awarded. But at that time of the year, the quota for work visas may have been met already.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Bump! 
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<p>Maybe you could clarify what additional answers you are hoping for?</p>
<p>"(Hint: don’t major in the liberal arts.)"</p>
<p>ummm… why? I mean, are you saying that international students who join the liberal arts schools (even the top ones) will find it really hard to find a job? I don’t intend to to work in the US but I do really want a good job during my OPT time.</p>
<p>Oh, and I am majoring in econ hopefully but it’s still a liberal arts degree/major. =.= thanks :D</p>
<p>xDDD</p>
<p>1) STEM majors, despite common opinion, are also liberal arts. As is anything that is not pre-professional</p>
<p>2) EVERYBODY majors in econ, la. Good luck.</p>
<p>Unless you attend a school prestigious enough that your affiliation with that university is reason enough to hire you (Harvard is such a school, Haverford is not), you’ll have quite a hard time getting a job in the US with a liberal arts degree.</p>
<p>Half of all recent college graduates are said to be [unemployed</a> or underemployed](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/one-in-two-new-college-graduates-i-jobless-or-underemployed/]unemployed”>One in Two New College Graduates Is Jobless or Underemployed - The New York Times). All of them would be happy to take a “good job” that requires no specific undergraduate training (the kind of jobs liberal arts majors rely on). Why would a company hire an international student - who’ll either stay for less than a year or need an expensive and labor-intensive work visa - if there’s a long line of more reliable American applicants happy to take that job?</p>
<p>I graduated from a liberal arts college. The only international students who found jobs after graduation were the computer science majors and a few social science majors who made a year-long volunteer commitment at non-profit organizations.</p>