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60% of Columbia University’s Students Are International Students
Geller Report ^ | March 15, 2025 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 03/16/2025 5:17:12 PM PDT by george76

What fresh hell is this?

Why are American taxpayers funding this?

Columbia has one of the largest international student and scholar populations in the US.

Columbia University has 35,978 students enrolled

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Columbia University has more than 23,000 international students and scholars from 162 countries


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: columbia; columbiauniversity; university
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1 posted on 03/16/2025 5:17:12 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

That RATS nest needs a good fumigating. Get that crap outta here.


2 posted on 03/16/2025 5:18:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The hate-filled DemonRATS are the greatest threat to America and Americans..)
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To: george76

That RATS nest needs a good fumigating. Get that crap outta here.


3 posted on 03/16/2025 5:18:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The hate-filled DemonRATS are the greatest threat to America and Americans..)
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To: george76

And who is paying their very high tuition?


4 posted on 03/16/2025 5:19:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: george76

In the early 2000’s there was a huge push on college campuses to attract overseas students. The reason? The schools did not have to provide them with financial aid. They were literally “full pay”. Colleges made a killing on them.


5 posted on 03/16/2025 5:20:44 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ifinnegan

Qatar is my guess.


6 posted on 03/16/2025 5:21:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
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To: Vermont Lt

In the early 2000’s there was a huge push on college campuses to attract overseas students. The reason? The schools did not have to provide them with financial aid. They were literally “full pay”. Colleges made a killing on them.


Exactly. A cash cow for the Universities. Hard to know how much might come from USAID.


7 posted on 03/16/2025 5:23:59 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: george76

So why was that school getting that much in taxpayer money?


8 posted on 03/16/2025 5:25:54 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: george76

The US educational system no longer produces NEARLY enough students to fill our elite colleges - so the schools simply take their students from countries that actually do educate their kids (and there are many, many, of those).

No big deal...unless one thinks of the implications for our kids and grand kids.


9 posted on 03/16/2025 5:30:38 PM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: marktwain

I reckon we’re gonna find out.


10 posted on 03/16/2025 5:32:47 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

shut down the “skool” and nd you eliminate commie indoctrination, and keep a bunch of future trouble makers in their home countries. Win Win!


11 posted on 03/16/2025 5:33:24 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: george76

They provide free or discounted tuition based on need for American students (https://www.lendingtree.com/student/ivy-league-financial-aid/), and generally can charge full boat for foreigners. Schools have also long pulled in marginal foreign students to be able to brag about having representation from as many countries (and states) as possible.

But yeah, we need a reckoning with higher ed across the board.


12 posted on 03/16/2025 5:34:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: george76

Gellar must read FR:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4303717/posts?page=19#19

>”In 2024, Columbia had a total enrolment of 35,279, and a foreign student enrollment of 23,914. Two-thirds of their students are foreign! They are essentially a foreign school, and should be getting ZERO dollars from the US taxpayers, and zero access to sensitive research.”<

https://isso.columbia.edu/statistics


13 posted on 03/16/2025 5:34:40 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vermont Lt

It was big at the state university I went to. Full pay was also the out of state rate which was about triple the in-state rate most students started at.


14 posted on 03/16/2025 5:36:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (“Forget it, Jake. It's California.”)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Probably a lot of them.


15 posted on 03/16/2025 5:38:22 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: george76

How does that compare to other universities?


16 posted on 03/16/2025 5:44:21 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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“...so the schools simply take their students from countries that actually do educate their kids...”

The capitalists will sell us the rope we will use to hang them. Lenin, supposedly.


17 posted on 03/16/2025 5:46:00 PM PDT by odawg
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To: george76

I thought the whole rationale was that the taxpayers DID NOT fund them.


18 posted on 03/16/2025 5:51:31 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: odawg

“The capitalists will sell us the rope we will use to hang them. Lenin, supposedly.”

I’d reword it a bit: “The Westerners will outsource the rope we will use to hang them.”


19 posted on 03/16/2025 5:52:48 PM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: george76

How many Muzzies?


20 posted on 03/16/2025 5:53:27 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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