>>13293791>They focus on the fundamentals. They don't, their curricula are extremely shallow focussing on watered down versions of complicated subjects to make their courseload appear as impressive as possible on CVs. Speaking of the majority of TUs, not IIT Dehli etc.
>They also come from a culture where it is made plainly obvious that STEM is the only path to get up and out of the dirt, so they have that drive too.And yet there were 2.4 mil applicants that wrote an interview exam for 5500 public STEM positions in 2019. There are 1.4mil engineering graduates in India per year and less than 30% of them find any work at all while of those that do 70% of it is in the low paid IT sector (which results in life long debt of the families who pressured their sons into expensive engineering degrees).
Turns out STEM degrees are actually pretty worthless unless you actually foster a culture of innovation in a protected market and not just spam graduates to be absorbed in underployed positions in foreign companies.