The share of college graduates earning degrees in STEM fields is slowly increasing in southeast Wisconsin, which is an encouraging trend for the regional economy and one that may be bolstered by a new regional initiative to strengthen STEM education. However, we find that gender and racial gaps persist in the STEM higher education pipeline. Meanwhile, international students earn almost half of the graduate degrees awarded in STEM fields in southeast Wisconsin, but the extent to which they are retained in the region is unknown.
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