Research is the ticket to mobility for scholars at such institutions, and they need help from graduate students to do it, he said. Mr. Massy conducted the study with Charles A. Goldman, a researcher at the RAND Corporation. They were assisted by Marc Chun and Beryle Hsiao, two graduate students in education at Stanford. They included foreign doctoral recipients, adopting what Mr. Massy called a standard assumption that 50 per cent of them remained in the United States to work after finishing their training. The overproduction of Ph.D.'s is most acute in computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering, the study showed.
Computer scientists are in pretty hot demand.
The point, he added, is that many are not finding faculty positions in which a Ph.D. is essential.