According to the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, 1.2 million of the world’s 2.8 million university degrees in science and engineering in 2000 were earned by Asian students in Asian universities, with only 400,000 granted in the United States. That means the US of A supplies less than 15% of all degrees.

With China and India fast on the US’s heals, we’ve got to do a better job as a nation of not only educating our future innovators and leaders but making them want to learn these subjects. Math and science are a hard sell but we’ve got to be able to close the deal or else we risk a future where America no longer leads but follows.