Foreign nationals seek engineering degrees: underground women's enrollments decline. (Update).

According to Engineering & Technology Enrollments, Fall 2001, a report released in August by the Engineering Workforce Commission (a division of the American Association of Engineering Societies), the enrollment level of foreign national students rose 18.6 percent at the freshman level and 14.7 percent at the graduate level.

In 2001, female student enrollment declined as a percentage of engineering freshmen, falling from 18.9 to 18.3 percent of the freshman class. However, women increased from 10.0 to 10.3 percent at the master's level and from 6.2 to 6.6 percent at the doctoral level. Enrollments in bioengineering, general engineering programs, and computer-related engineering studies continued an upward trend, while chemical engineering enrollments declined.