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Americans want their children to have the best possible education and take great pride in their schools. Education is a State responsibility. After 11 years of High School, students go either to 2- year community colleges or to four year degree colleges which award bachelor degrees referred to as under graduate degrees. A graduate degree in America is what is called as Post graduate degree under the British system. Thus MA or MS in America are graduate degrees, not BA, B.Sc or BE. M.S, MBA and M.A are termed graduate degrees. PhD and DBA or doctoral degrees.

Today only about half of the young people who graduate from high school go on to colleges or universities. This has resulted in severe shortage of highly skilled manpower. US colleges are hungry for foreign students and over 50 percent of the PhD candidates are foreign students, Chinese and Indians sharing a large piece in the pie. As of June 2004, 74,600 Indian students were enrolled in US colleges.