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by akiselev 2173 days ago
I highly doubt that's what will happen. How many of these programs are dependent on foreign tuition? These aren't efficient institutions, mind you, so a downturn could lead to collapse of the weakest ones, leading to increase domestic competition at the remaining ones.
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How many of these programs are dependent on foreign tuition?

At least some are. And this is nothing new.

When I went to college decades ago, I and a bunch of my friends got kicked out of our university at the end of the semester because it was over its legislatively-mandated limit for out-of-state students. The university had loaded up on lucrative international students in previous years, and when the ratio was changed, people like me got the heave-ho.

The problem is that we have to remove the greed from the university administrators. But good luck with that.

My comment was only considering graduate students, whom I think, are the group most affected by this change. Graduate students in STEM usually don't pay tuition--their lab pays the fees for them to be enrolled.
International Graduate students, even in STEM, are mostly Masters candidates paying extremely high fees.

https://cgsnet.org/master%E2%80%99s-or-doctorate-internation...