Except that whole "paying for it thing", there are very very few grants/scholarships for international students and they pay out-of-state fees plus a little more for being foreigners. Plus, outside of CPT you're not allowed to work in the US (only 20hrs max, on campus employment is allowed, if you can get it) to make money.

So yeah ... not as easy as it seems.

Um... you have to have the degree before you attempt to enter the US.

That is factually incorrect. You can come here on an F1 visa, get a degree and then get a H-1b

OK. Let's start over.

The original complaint was that someone wanted to come into the US, but the visa he wanted required that he have (at least) a bachelor's degree before he could get the visa.

My response was that this was a fairly straightforward hurdle to cross.

Pointing out that it's possible to do things differently by obtaining another type of visa really doesn't change the original situation.

Except that whole "paying for it thing", there are very very few grants/scholarships for international students and they pay out-of-state fees plus a little more for being foreigners. So yeah ... not as easy as it seems.