/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12682231
Ran into lots of Chinese students in CS postgrad like that. Turns out that the Chinese government sends students to the US for grad school and they enroll in whatever program will take them. Most grad schools trust their students to figure out what course to take on their own with advisers available but not required each term. So the Chinese grad students enrolled in Textile Management or Agricultural Research pack into CS classes. For them the CS degree means they can live in a big city like Shanghai instead of rural China where all the textile and farms are located. But many of them have zero CS knowledge. I had two Chinese girls ask me what was the difference between a Bit and a Byte. This was in a graduate level algorithms class.
It's a messed up system but as long as they satisfy all of the requirements for a CS graduate degree, neither the university nor the Chinese government care what grad program they enrolled in. And even if there was a requirement to have their course schedule approved by an advisor, every university has tons a Chinese faculty who are more than happy to serve as an advisor to Chinese students. This happens with Indian students too, but more commonly takes the form of zero work independent study courses for which they get an automatic A.
Since the Chinese students are paying full out-of-state rates, the universities are making money off of them and really don't care about the particulars of what's going on at the student and classroom level.

>>11891239
They've lost their mandate from heaven.