Foreign grad students pay out of state tuition. They are cash cows for Universities.
They do not complain about abusive professors, and are often abused.
“Foreign grad students pay out of state tuition. They are cash cows for Universities. They do not complain about abusive professors, and are often abused.”
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Plus, you don’t have to teach them anything - just take the money and give them a degree.
This has been the norm for eons.
In the 1980s I was in the College of Engineering at my university and when I was accepted in my Junior year I had to have a 3.1 GPA just to apply. The university was admitting a large number of foreign students into the program and those students only needed the "university average" of a 2.25 GPA to get into an engineering program.
When I graduated two years later they had almost doubled the foreign student entries and the US students had to have a 3.4 GPA to apply for the programs while the foreigners still only needed a 2.25 GPA.
When I graduated I was paying $55 per credit/hour plus a fee of $300/term just for the privilege of being in the engineering college while the foreign students were forking over $900 per credit/hour. A total cash grab, nothing more.