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I'd be really interested in finding out how that study defines "IT". And also how it defines "STEM job". Would being a quant on Wall Street be considered a "STEM job", for instance?

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good question, its probably much broader than you would expect... I think quant would fall under

27.0305 financial math

see the official list here

http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf

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