Max Planck Society sees flood of US job applicants amid Trump swoop on universities
Source: Reuters
Uncertainty over the future of U.S. universities under President Donald Trump's administration has fuelled a threefold surge in U.S. applications to the Max Planck Society, one of Europe's leading research bodies.
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"What's interesting is the number of applications from other parts of the world remained constant," said Patrick Cramer, president of the Max Planck Society.
"If you look at which institutions these applications are coming from, you see almost half are concentrated at five (U.S.) institutions: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California."
With an annual budget of over 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) and a staff of 25,000 spread over its 84 research centres, as well as 39 Nobel prizes to its name, Max Planck is one of the few outfits worldwide that can offer facilities comparable with top-drawer U.S. institutions.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/max-planck-society-sees-flood-us-job-applicants-amid-trump-swoop-universities-2025-05-30/
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So now the USA is the country where the best and brightest want to leave 
