Posted on 08/20/2025 3:37:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.
Many Iranians are not going to American universities this fall. Students from Afghanistan are having trouble getting to campus.
Even students from China and India, the top two senders of international students to the United States, have been flummoxed by a maze of new obstacles the Trump administration has set up to slow or deter people entering the country from abroad.
Between the federal government’s heightened vetting of student visas and President Trump’s travel ban, the number of international students newly enrolled in American universities seems certain to drop — by a lot.
There were about a million international students studying in the United States a year ago, according to figures published by the State Department. Data on international student enrollment is not expected to be released until the fall. But higher education is already feeling the pain and deeply worried about the fallout.
Many schools have seen the number of international students grow in recent years. But a survey of over 500 colleges and universities by the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit which works with governments and others to promote international education, found that 35 percent of the schools experienced a dip in applications from abroad last spring, the most since the pandemic.
In China and India, there have been few visa appointments available for students in recent months, and sometimes none at all, according to the Association of International Educators, also known as NAFSA, a professional organization. If visa problems persist, new international student enrollment in American colleges could drop by 30 to 40 percent overall this fall, a loss of 150,000 students, according to the group’s analysis. Some...
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“Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus”
The nyt doesn’t need to sell President Trump, he can’t run for a third term.
Hello, beautiful! I was hoping to run into you on this thread
I fully support eliminating PRC student visas for at least a year maybe longer. Also the need to cutback on Indian student visas. The problem will be thanks to poor STEM preparation by our K12 system many state university STEM & engineering programs will take a huge beating - particularly their graduate programs. It will take awhile to straighten this out. State K12 programs will have to be forced to buckle down and require real standards. This will be politically very hard to do!
Without foreign students paying full out of state tuition, I expect all American students will pay higher tuition.
Tough shit
They are foreign students and foreign spies.
Hard to tell which is which.
Better to be safe and deport them all.
The name is Greek.
For additional detail,
born in Lausanne, Switzerland.
It’s located about half way down the north shore of Lake Geneva.
Her father was Greek.
CRY ME A RIVER
Good. So what’s the problem?
Colleges make more money off non Citizens
To hell with them
Teach Americans
OH SHIT! You mean there will be less terrorist, rapists! Murderers and Chicom spies? oh the huuuuge manatee.
Since when did the New York Times start hiring someone whose name sounds like a congenital genetic defect?
"Poor kid. He was born with Anemona Hartocollis."
Sounds like a dread disease.
The name is a new disease.
Good keep them all out.
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