Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- Over the last few decades, a steady stream of postgraduate students from Bangladesh has completed advanced degrees abroad. This trend underscores increased global mobility, the internationalization of higher education, and students' ambitions for better training, resources, and career opportunities. While studying abroad can offer significant benefits to individuals and their home countries, the overall impact of ongoing outflows of postgraduate talent raises important questions for Bangladesh's development.

The main concern is the risk of brain drain, where highly skilled individuals leave, resulting in a net loss of expertise and productivity that could have contributed to local growth if they had stayed. However, mo...