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Understanding the Academic Journey of an International West African Engineering Graduate Student in the United States

International graduate students contribute significantly to the United States (U.S.) engineering academic and professional workforce.These students bring to the U.S. extensive knowledge from their home countries, strengthen diversity, classroom internationalization, and multicultural education (among the student body, faculty members, and staff in the U.S. universities), acquire world-class knowledge, and benefit the global economy by way of engineering contributions.However, graduate students from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are generally understudied within the broader population of internation…