<p>I was wondering if anyone has seen any interesting statistics on engineers.
More specifically:
How many graduate every year? What % of undergraduate degrees are engineering degrees?
How many people in medical/law/business schools have engineering undergraduate degrees?
etc etc</p>
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<p>Great article. Still, I feel that China and India are only lagging for now behind the USA, mostly due to the fact that they can't afford to train as many engineers as American universities can and do. I imagine that as soon as the $ materializes they will find enough willing students to surpass the US in numbers of scientists/engineers per capita.</p>
<p>Still interesting read though.</p>
<p>Well, the problem with India is they are producing vast numbers of engineers, but no new engineering teachers, which has slowly been leading to a shift from a focus in engineering to a focus in education in that country. Also only 40% of engineering graduates from Indian Universities have the proper training to pursue jobs in the United States if they ever wished to, a smaller percentage of those can also speak english well enough as well.</p>
<p>According to some sources the United States still produces the largest number of properly trained engineers in the world, and still has most of the best engineering schools in the world.</p>