US draws fewer new foreign students for 3rd straight year (1% Drop)

AP ^ | 11 18 2019 | COLLIN BINKLEY

[yesthatjallen]

The number of foreign students coming to U.S. colleges and universities continued to fall last year, according to a new report, but the Trump administration says the drop should be blamed on high tuition costs and not students’ concerns over the nation’s political atmosphere.

An annual report from the Institute of International Education found that the number of newly enrolled international students dipped by 1% in fall 2018 compared to the year before. It follows decreases of 7% and 3% in the previous two years, which were the first downturns in more than a decade.

The downturn is a worry for universities that have come to rely on tuition from foreign students, who are typically charged higher rates. Some schools have blamed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants for driving students away, but officials at the State Department, which pays for the annual report, dismissed the idea.

Caroline Casagrande, deputy assistant secretary for academic programs at the department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, said students are deterred by the high cost to attend U.S. schools. She said the downturn is tied to students who were applying to college during the Obama administration, and that the numbers appear to be rebounding under Trump.

“What we’ve seen today is a dramatically better picture compared to last year’s declines,” Casagrande said during a call with reporters. “The Trump administration has dedicated more resources than ever to international student mobility.”

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[yesthatjallen]

The downturn is a worry for universities that have come to rely on tuition from foreign students, who are typically charged higher rates. Some schools have blamed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants for driving students away, but officials at the State Department, which pays for the annual report, dismissed the idea.

Universities make more money from foreign students.

Good news. Enrollment of Chinese student spies and intellectual property thieves are down.

[Fai Mao]

Universities are a dying model of education

[Pontiac]

Probably a bunch of racist overseas.

They don’t want to send their kids to school with all of the illegal alien kids.

[duckman]

“Some schools have blamed President Donald Trump’s...”
It’s always Trumps fault isn’t it? /sarc

[neverevergiveup]

“Universities are a dying model of education”

I agree with this entirely, for many reasons.

[SharpRightTurn]

I would favor a 99% drop.

[bgill]

There should be zero foreign students taking away US citizens’ desks.

[Starstruck]

With the political left indoctrination that goes on in American colleges is it any wonder?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yeah that 1% drop could be entirely Chinese wannabe spies who thought better of it with Trump in charge.

[Saltmeat]

American university degrees have been degraded to the point that the foreigners no longer perceive that they are worth their cost. We rational Americans have know it for some time.

[KittyKares]

Foreigners probably want their kids to learn something useful for the money.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There should be zero foreign students taking away US citizens’ desks.

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For state supported colleges and universities, I would question why qualified students from those states, can be turned away to make room for foreign students.

At least in the past, some states such as California, had policies in place to admit all qualified in state students, and then backfill with out of state or out of country students to fill their campuses.

But from what I hear, that doesn’t happen anymore. The fact that our state universities should admit instate students first seems to have gone by the wayside.

[Mastador1]

Why would a serious student come to an American university for higher education? The universities have become a joke, the only thing they are good at turning out are woke idiots that only know about alphabet soupers and worshiping gaia and they can get that at home for free while their countries universities actually teach math and science.

[EC Washington]

Whoever pulled the numbers together for this report has not visited any colleges lately. The Ohio State University, Purdue, Illinois, Loyola, IIT, are all loaded with Chinese students. The Engineering and Computer Science Departments are 90% Asian students. In the Masters of Logistics Engineering at OSU, only 1 [one] student is an American.

[oil_dude]

Maybe they realize it is no longer a ticket stay in America forever...

[dfwgator]

In fact, if I were a student today, I’d seriously consider studying abroad, say in, Central Europe.

[JoeFromSidney]

For two semesters, I taught at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. My students were the equals of those I taught in the USA. The university was taught in English, and entrance was very competitive. The Turkish faculty members all had graduate degrees from top universities Europe or America. The Dean of the School of Engineering was a woman who had received her doctorate in America. My department chairman had also received his doctorate in America. Several of my colleagues had doctorates from English or European universities. By now, however, they can produce their own native-educated faculty.

[JoeFromSidney]

For two semesters, I taught at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. My students were the equals of those I taught in the USA. The university was taught in English, and entrance was very competitive. The Turkish faculty members all had graduate degrees from top universities Europe or America. The Dean of the School of Engineering was a woman who had received her doctorate in America. My department chairman had also received his doctorate in America. Several of my colleagues had doctorates from English or European universities. By now, however, they can produce their own native-educated faculty.