But that is relatively new. Many US universities had a foreign language requirement for graduate degrees, but since English has become the standard language in most academic fields it has been seen as unnecessary.
For example, if you go to many European universities and visit any science/engineering/math department with significant foreign faculty, the language spoken is usually English. And of course that's the language in which most papers, theses, etc. are published.
For example, if you go to many European universities and visit any science/engineering/math department with significant foreign faculty, the language spoken is usually English. And of course that's the language in which most papers, theses, etc. are published.