"As a share of its working-age population, roughly 34% of Americans have completed tertiary education, according to data compiled by Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee of Harvard and Korea University. Only Singapore has a higher rate." Economist
"The [Canadian] gov't. is targeting [expanding] immigration, [as] the worker-to-retiree ratio is expected to shift from 7-to-1 50 years ago to 2-to-1 by 2035. It wants 465K new permanent residents this year (up from a record 405,000 last year), 485K in 2024 & 500K in 2025." FT
The annual premium paid to an MIT college graduate in finance vis-a-vis the avg. earnings for finance workers for the first 10 years after graduation is $48,051 vs. $39,879 at Harvard. Only 4% of MIT grads go into finance vs. 8.8% at Harvard and 12.5% at UPenn. eFinancialCareers
"Over 56% of Americans believe that highly skilled immigrants help the U.S. economy, according to a Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and Morning Consult survey of 2,006 registered voters." Yahoo! Finance
"In 2020, 17 percent of American doctoral degrees given in science and engineering went to Chinese students, underscoring that the United States has been a huge beneficiary of China’s brain drain." Nicholas Kristof, NYTimes
Clusterf**k defined: “those debacles and disasters caused by a deadly brew of illusion, impatience, and incompetence that afflicts too many decision-makers, especially those in powerful, confident, and prestigious groups.” Bob Sutton, Stanford GSB/Quartz
"The GMAC survey found that candidates in North and Latin America prefer longer programs, whereas those in the Middle East and Africa, Europe, and Asia/Pacific Islands prefer programs that last 13-18 months." Poets & Quants
"The highest-ranked U.S. [business] schools with one-year options are Kellogg, Cornell, Duke, NYU Stern, Emory Goizueta, USC Marshall, Notre Dame Mendoza, and SMU Cox." Poets & Quants
“In 2021, estimates of the global [management] consulting services market ranged from between almost $700 billion to over $ 900 billion.” Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington
"Gareth James, dean of Emory U.’s Goizueta Business School, estimates that full-time MBA students make up little more than 3% of the overall business school students. 'But while it’s 3% of the market, it’s 97% of the reputation. It’s a very strange environment to live in.'” P&Q
"In 2021, Canada welcomed 139,459 new permanent residents through its high-skilled worker programs and more than 645,000 people in the first 10 months of 2022. It intends to accept more than 1.5 million more people by 2025." Foreign Policy
"Thirteen MBA programs at prestigious schools such as Yale, Penn (Wharton), and Chicago (Booth) offer a lifetime return exceeding $2 million." Poets & Quants
"One in five IT specialists left Belarus after Russia’s war in Ukraine compared to one in ten after the [fraudulent Belarus] 2020 presidential election. Employees dominated the departures in 2020, while mid-level workers fled after February 2022." CEPA
"According to a 2022 Corporate Recruiter survey from GMAC, 97% of recruiters expect demand for MBA hires to remain the same or increase at their organizations." P&Q