International student mobility and highly skilled migration: a comparative study of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom

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Table 3 Foreign students enrolled in S&E, 2006

	Total foreign S&E students	Total foreign students	Foreign S&E/Total foreign (%)^a	Foreign S&E Graduate	Foreign graduate	Foreign S&E graduate/Total foreign graduate (%)^a
Canada	34,270	106,058	32.3	13,060	-	-
UK	123,580	325,985	37.9	67,630	158,920	42.6
US	201,765	582,984	34.6	131,455	264,288	49.7

National Science Foundation NSF (2010, Table 2-45; 2008, Table 2-45, 2-24); Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC (2010b); Higher Education Statistics Agency HESA (2010a); Institute of International Education IIE (2010); Canada data refer to the year 2005.
^a Calculated by authors.