[seszett]

What happens to a foreign student who leaves the US and just doesn't repay their loan? It seems to me that nothing would happen at all?

[ta0987]

You can't get a US student loan without a citizen or permanent resident cosigner.

[kkarakk]

Banks cooperate internationally, you're on the hook both in your home country(or whatever country the co-signer is from)and the country the college is in. it's impossible to just skip out on loans nowadays(unless the trusted co-signer disappears with you ofc)

[jogjayr]

Foreign students get loans from their home country not the US. No US institution will lend to a foreign student without a domestic co-signer, for precisely this reason.