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Foreign Student Share and Supply of STEM-Designated Economics Programs

Sie Won Kim

Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of U.S. institutions offering STEM-eligible degree programs in economics. This paper documents the trends in STEM-degree offerings across degree levels and examines the share of foreign students and other characteristics of institutions that offer STEM-eligible programs. Using a difference-in-differences design, this paper finds that departments with a proportion of foreign students above the sample median are 6 and 9 percentage points more likely to offer a STEM-eligible degree program at the bachelor's and master's levels, respectively, after the STEM designation in 2013. Additionally, the tobit regression results suggest that early adopters of STEM-eligible programs are associated with a higher share of foreign students, private institutions and doctoral and research institutions.

Keywords
STEM; economics major; international students; higher education
Education level
Post-secondary education
Topics
Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags
College readiness,
Higher education
Download 09/2024
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/z76p-3f77
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Kim, Sie Won. (). Foreign Student Share and Supply of STEM-Designated Economics Programs. (EdWorkingPaper: -1040). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/z76p-3f77

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