The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
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Thanks, Trump!
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MAGA really does hate the America we all have been creating since the civil rights movement began.
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No kidding. Lots of other countries have terrific schools. Who needs the BS?
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I’m very surprised the drop is so low. Nobody who doesn’t have their primary residence in the US should be travelling to the US given how many tourists have ended up in ICE detention facilities. 🤷
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The economic impact of xhenophobia!
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And...
Maybe a few more slots for 'our' kids...
OK, I get it but let's be honest. California state colleges and universities admitted the legal limit of out-of-state students for purely financial reasons and I'm sure the same applied to students from outside the country as well.
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Democracy/Progressive Democratic governments are actually good for capitalism
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Another self own. Doesn't help anyone or make anyone "great again".
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So we, here in America, are no longer going to get our pick of “the best and the brightest” the world has to offer? We won’t get the next Google, the next level AI geniuses, …Tesla & SpaceX? So much for this experiment in running the country as an Idiocracy!
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And to add to that- with enrollment dropping at many US higher education institutions from US students, this will add to the financial pressure of both private colleges struggling to survive and state schools with a significant loss of income, since intl students pay higher tuition costs.
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Although I’m also willing to believe that it comes naturally to him
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Trump has had to work incredibly hard to achieve this level of stupid
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Because trump is an idiot.
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If this makes you mad, spend just as much time screaming at MAGA Voters/making THEIR lives a living hell. As you do for the Nazis and fascist politicians that they’ve handed the power to destroy this fucking country over to.
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Seems bad! I wonder how hard it will hit the little niche that I am familiar with (ballet). There are many international dancers in the US.
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They can use the dorms for low cost tourist accommodation. Oh wait, the decline in tourists is getting close to that as well, another lost of $20 Bn. in revenue.
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My kids are going to college Fall 26 and they want to leave the US for all the obvious reasons.
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Stephen Miller is no economist is he?
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Honestly, 60,000 seems like a low estimate.
I’m thinking of college towns like Ann Arbor or Boulder, where shops have to staff up like crazy every academic year. And now cut that. And by 30-40% for all of them without time to adjust or get American citizens to enroll instead.
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And I'm surprised it isn't worse. I don't know why anyone would take the risk. I guess Russians probably feel safe.
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With the best American students now all heading abroad, it'll be interesting to see which countries take advantage in exactly the was the US used to, and just quietly siphon off the best American students permanently.
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So much winning…the Art of the Deal.
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Another way to kneecap higher education.
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I hope most of the colleges need to shut down and sell their shit for 5% market value after their capitulation.
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It actually resulted in an ADDITIONAL 11ty billion jobs and no one left at BLS will crontradict it
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Without significant recovery in visa issuance in July and August, up to 150,000 fewer students may arrive this fall.
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Thanks to corporations we are a nation of mediocre product. The music and entertainment sectors are already experiencing this. Wealthy people are the only ones able to produce anything and most are only marginally qualified. They want the rest of us in factories that dont exist and processing meat.
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It's all about the bigotry. hechingerreport.org/internationa...
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Perfect
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I guess that’s okay under the Trump Doctrine because you’re getting an import tariff on manufactured goods.
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Universities could create more public money. They already do so. They could just do much more of it.
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But then we’ll be great again, right? This will make us great?
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So much winning.
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I wonder what percentage of the population understand what that actually means for American industrial excellence as the best choose to get there education elsewhere
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No worries, we'll make up that lost revenue with tariffs! 🤔
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That low? Steven Miller must be upset that it's not a 100% drop.
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International students would be foolish to enroll here.
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It’s called the Trump non-premium!
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and will hurt small red state college towns most of all
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And the trashing they did of student loans and repayments makes going back to school less affordable..... almost like we'll all need to go to other countries for what we used to get back home.
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When potential students see the new standards for applying for a US visa, on top of all the other crap going on (higher Ed losing funding, capitulation to fascist demands, ICE crimes at points of entry), I can't imagine anyone risking a US education (worked with intl students for years at big univs)
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So many colleges have low acceptance rates. There are plenty of smart kids here who apply and get denied. There is a demand for college. The cost is what needs to be addressed. Unaffordable for so many that “make too much” for any federal aid and to add insult to injury, loan amounts now capped.
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I work with a lot of international students. Good luck to us if we lose them.
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And that’s just short term.
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Well, like, duh. The reverse for Canadian schools btw. U.S. student enrollment there has also increased. Who wants to send their kid to a U.S. school where they could get arrested for thinking?
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Won’t this disproportionately affect the most competitive universities?
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Given recent numbers Trump seems to be pursuing negative job growth so this stat perfectly aligns with his policies and intent. How can anyone think eliminating an entire revenue stream from our economy is a good business decision?
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2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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And students will pay the consequences...and the raised tuitions, of course.
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I mean alot of us are also, out of kindness, telling people to NOT come here as they will just try to detain and deport them to some hellhole.
Then there's that other bigoted side that thinks "Native Americans" are white Europeans immigrants.
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It can also hurt the housing market locally near universities.
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And American PhD students are leaving and doing post docs in Europe
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If the majority of those job losses as D’s or I’s, maybe the administration sees it as a plus.
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How to fully staff ICE: make it the only job available
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Something we think about w younger kid applying to college this fall Saw zero international students on all but 1 campus visit this summer And at McGill standards for US applicants much higher than when older kid admitted for fall 2019
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fa, fo, etc
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Cool cool cool coo cool
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With Trump's promise of a purge at the office of US economics, with a long-term view of fixing them to go in his favour, I'm wondering how future statistics will ice over these fairly inevitable figures.
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I am pretty sure they don't care.
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The impacts are going to ripple quite far since international students don't just pay tuition but often rent local apartments, have family visit and stay in local lodging, buy food and furniture and souvenirs, travel the country during breaks, and enrich the lives of so many people.
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First time I was a minority was Grad School. Suddenly having peers from all around the globe with different educational traditions was like suddenly playing in the Majors after a lifetime in your little Iowa cornfield.
Things will not just be going back “to normal” after Trump 2.0. So much broken
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Can't lie, I won't be too bothered watching the smaller conservative colleges in Ohio deal with this.
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Honestly, I am surprised the decline isn't steeper. Why would anyone want to study in a place that is in the throes of overly hostile nationalism and is also hellbent on actively destroying its own education systems?
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Higher Ed was an industry in which the US enjoyed a tremendous trade surplus
So much for that
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By design
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Thinking about this in terms of which three to four international student friends/fellow scholars in college I could have done without, and it’s making me very sad.
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So presumably that means higher acceptance rates and more American students. But international students pay much higher tuition, so schools lose revenue, which means higher tuition for domestic students.All to go to schools that are caving to a dictator. Pay more, get less. Genius again.
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I really wish people would be doing more asking about whether we should have our most elite institutions not increasing enrollment while simultaneously increasing foreign student rates to ~40%.
That's not putting the education of the country as your priority - that's about making $ and elitism
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Oh well. Less money for the kiddie fucking Republican con artists to steal.
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The FAFSA FAFO starts when they lose all that tuition cross-subsidy for Americans.
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As Epstein’s best friend says: “winning”
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It will devastate @uwmadison which over the past 20 years has increasingly relied on international and out-of-state tuition to offset continually declining state funding. Add the loss of federal research funding & they're facing a dire situation with no solution except down-sizing.
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Why would a foreign student want to enroll in a US school when the Trump Gestapo could arrest them and send them to a third-world dictator-run country like El Salvador?
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It's starting - Duke just re-opened their wait list www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Uugpu2/
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I like to think when they do graduate and return home, they bring a sense of the good heartedness of Americans, reasonably elite ambassadors.
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The fact that they're doing this as we're heading into the demographic cliff of 2008 recession babies means that whole colleges are going to go out of business. It's going to be a bloodbath for higher ed and set the American education system back decades.
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Not to mention the decades-long impact on medical, scientific, and engineering R&D.
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this is the sort of thing where the effects on companies, technology, skills and the economy will still be felt in 15 years time, even if Democrats win every upcoming election with landslides.
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Our department’s incoming master’s student cohort is down 80%.
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The impact will be worse than this. Small colleges will be forced to close and the towns they are in will die. And once that capacity is gone , it won’t be coming back no matter who is president.
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Yep! The long term effects will be devastating. There will be unintended consequences.
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And that’s just because of declining enrollment. Research funding cuts will make it even worse.
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It’s fine, we can easily replace all those smart, motivated people with…
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We don't need no stinking furriners paying full tuition in our colleges, which are for white Americans!
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But hey, more open spots for white American males who would've been passed over for more qualified international applicants. It's a great strategy to make admissions look merit-based while disqualifying the competition.
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Makes one wonder why these schools are willing to just roll over only to have this happen anyway.
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Yeah, but a lot of those foreign students are brown and so the rubes will just yell “USA!! USA!!”
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So, US schools could see 42-60% increase in admissions of US residents? Don’t threaten my kids with a better opportunity. Admissions is a zero sum game at most colleges. The economics drove perverse incentives. The kids are not alright.
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I have a BS&MS in Eng from US Uni 83-89. There’s more nuance to this. Availability of Admission to US Students is way down. The value of degrees to non residents is vastly more than residents. That skews the market. US degree as only method to expatriate wealth from CN/IN drives ethics issues.
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Why was I on a call w people in international services at a couple unis and when I asked what they anticipated in terms of enrollment declines they all spun such a rosy picture?? Saying "it's not as bad as it sounds"
Is it bc they will also lose their jobs? Delusional? Wishcasting??
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Three of my kids studied in the US, two of them already finished
For the others , they told me, they don’t want to study in the us anymore
Favored destination now: Trinity college
Guess, I have to get used to Guinness again 🙂
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My youngest is leaving the U.S. in a few weeks to study for his undergraduate degree in the U.K.
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Could? Would be shocked if it wasn’t 50%
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So much winning
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But Obama presidented while Black, which sadly left us with no other choice but to burn this country to the ground so he'll feel owned.
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Canadians were literally sent to detention camps and American media are still like: "oh they mad and don't wanna visit us anymore because we imposed tariffs snickers"
yea ma'am, that's not the main reason.
you're also hemorrhaging, the difference is Americans put up feeble to nonexistent fight
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Define idiotic self harm was the question?
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50 shades of cruel stupidity
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There was a big hit in 2016-2020 as well. How does this compare to that?
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That’s the goal though of the Trump admin we’re trying to add so many more jobs in the coal mines.
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I mean he told us we'd get tired of all the winning
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I guess people will start to care when college football stadiums are half empty like baseball stadiums.
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Surprised it’s not more.
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It’s all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy higher education.
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By design.
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If I were an international student smart enough to seek higher education, I would also be smart enough to stay away from the USA
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we so, so take for granted the economic and social prosperity that comes from being seen as the country of opportunity.
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And loss of global long-term prestige and influence. The ability to attract the best foreign students was always considered a sign of wealth, power, and influence.
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Well why would anyone want to go to that anti-intellectual Nazi country?
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Play the Sousa LOUDER!!!!
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A fascist only knows of if it’s true power, after witnessing the suffering of the masses.
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Lol jeeesus christ
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It's not safe here. A degree from a U.S. university is not worth the risk or the money.
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@w7voa At first I was wondering why enrollment would remain at 60% to 70% but I guess the remaining students are just trying to complete the programs they have already been admitted to. Wonder what the new applicant rate looks like.
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5-D chess!
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Hmm, eerily similar to the logic of tariffs…
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Plus the long-term consequences of the related brain drain, especially with established scientists, etc losing research funding, moving abroad . . .
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In other words, it’s going to cause a wave of university closures.
Many colleges and universities were struggling anyway, because the 20 years after 2008, the children that were never born because of the drop in fertility rates show up as a lack of students.
Foreign students are about […]
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Last year, I talked with an international student who was considering options here in the United States. After the election, they decided to take a position in Europe instead.
I cannot say they were wrong.
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The way this Country flip flops immigration laws, why aren't more people suing?
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#ThanksTrump!
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