The Star Students of the Islamic Republic
NewsWeek / Afshin Molavi
11-Aug-2008 (2 comments)

Forget Harvard—one of the world's best undergraduate colleges is in Iran. Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren't American wasn't odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran. Stanford has become a favorite destination of Sharif grads. Bruce A. Wooley, a former chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, has said that's because Sharif now has one of the best undergraduate electrical-engineering programs in the world. That's no small praise given its competition: MIT, Caltech and Stanford in the United States, Tsinghua in China and Cambridge in Britain.

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Re: Brain Drain (To: Amir Nasiri )

by Shining Head on

Anytime educated class leaves the country, it is a loss. However, some is natural and part of human desire, and economic dynamics. With your logic, biggest losers are China and India!


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Brain Drain

by Amir Nasiri (not verified) on

Brain Drain is costing Iranian government billion dollars every year.

This is by far the saddest story and article I have read this week so far.

It is a lost to Iran, Iranian people and Iran's future.