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Posted on 08/31/2025 3:33:54 AM PDT by Libloather
One international student after another told the University of Central Missouri this summer that they couldn’t get a visa, and many struggled to even land an interview for one.
Even though demand was just as high as ever, half as many new international graduate students showed up for fall classes compared to last year.
The decline represents a hit to the bottom line for Central Missouri, a small public university that operates close to its margins with an endowment of only $65 million. International students typically account for nearly a quarter of its tuition revenue.
“We aren’t able to subsidize domestic students as much when we have fewer international students who are bringing revenue to us,” said Roger Best, the university’s president.
Signs of a decline in international students have unsettled colleges around the U.S. Colleges with large numbers of foreign students and small endowments have little financial cushion to protect them from steep losses in tuition money.
International students represent at least 20% of enrollment at more than 100 colleges with endowments of less than $250,000 per student, according to an Associated Press analysis. Many are small Christian colleges, but the group also includes large universities such as Northeastern and Carnegie Mellon.
The extent of the change in enrollment will not be clear until the fall, Some groups have forecast a decline of as much as 40%, with a huge impact on college budgets and the wider U.S. economy.
International students face new scrutiny on several fronts
As part of a broader effort to reshape higher education, President Donald Trump has pressed colleges to limit their numbers of international students and heightened scrutiny of student visas. His administration has moved to deport foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian activism, and new student visa appointments were put on hold for weeks...
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Good. I voted for this. Defund the universities. Make them make hard decisions about what they do.
Colleges will have to lower their costs to find more Americans willing to pay their outrageous tuition fees
Tough.
Keep foreigners out of the USA and we might reduce the violent trouble they keep bringing.
Poor, poor, Harvard.
Harvard has a $58 Billion endowment.
:-/
a small public university that operates close to its margins with an endowment of only $65 million.
What is a public university doing with any endowment
Another win
Well, you know what they say in the Mexican Marines.
BTTT
New York is bribing students with free, snort, tuition.
Paid for by taxpayers.
And the freebie comes with a lot of strings.
What is it doing with a tax-free endowment...
Rather than say ‘don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out’ say ‘you can’t come here in the first place,’ period. Last I looked the word “education” is not in the Constitution and is not our job to to pay for it.
Better idea = perhaps these rich colleges can go to another country and build their schools with foreign money and get rich off them instead.
They may have to lay off some of their Marxist professors.
Very telling, isn’t it?
Trump just agreed to let hundreds of thousands of Chinese students in
Only 65 million for a small university cry me a river.
Over the past decades universities have become bloated wasteful institutions living on the high times of high tuition funded by student loans for degrees that are mostly useless.
Then they join the chorus of “student debt is too high” and demand that the govt which gave the loans, forgive the loans.
As Kirk says colleges these days are mostly a scam
Correct me if I’m wrong!
Didn’t President Trump recently announce that the U.S. would permit 600,000 Chinese students to study at American Universities ??
Would like to see their books, how much do the professors make and how much does the administrators make and how large is it.
My guess very bloated.
Elite and non-elite universities and colleges...welcome to the real world where actions or inactions have real consequences.
A leech will suck blood until it is scraped off.
Go Trump GO!!!!
I didn’t find Southwest Missouri State University on the following list:
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/roi2022/
BUT the study indicates that 40 percent of college grads earn lass than high school grads. And, at about one-third of colleges, more than half of their graduates earn less than high school grads.
“An average of 60 percent of college students across institutions earn more than a high school graduate after 10 years. However, at 1,233 postsecondary institutions (30 percent), more than half of their students 10 years after enrollment are earning less than a high school graduate.”
These findings are corroborated by rising rate of delinquency on student loans:
While a college education can be rewarding (esp. for those in STEMH fields and who attend elite universities), for many a college education is little more than the loss of up to five years, compounded by a huge unproductive debt.
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