We hear plenty about China's ascent as a science superpower, its new science institutes, ample government investment and large numbers of science students . But China as a magnet for foreign talent is less well documented. Chinese science graduates continue to go in droves to the United States and other countries for their postgraduate training. An analysis from the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology in New York shows that by 2007 the two universities supplying the greatest number of graduates in all disciplines to US graduate-school programmes were Chinese - Tsinghua and Peking universities. The University of California, Berkeley, Seoul National University in South Korea, and the University of Michigan rounded out the top five.
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