Posted on 10/06/2025 7:19:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The United States of America’s plan to cap international undergraduate students at 15 per cent per campus, with no more than 5 per cent from any single country, has caused unease among global students—especially in India, which sends one of the largest cohorts to American universities.
What the White House proposal says
Earlier this month, the White House sent a memo to nine universities outlining a proposal that ties federal funding to new conditions. These include limiting international undergraduate enrolment to 15 per cent overall and capping any single country at 5 per cent.
The memo is not a universal policy but a selective, funding-linked proposal. Many reports have overlooked that it is currently targeted and conditional, not nationwide.
Education consultants told Business Standard that if implemented, this could be one of the most restrictive measures for foreign students in recent years.
“Capping undergraduate enrolment at 15 per cent, and further limiting any single country to 5 per cent, would immediately shrink opportunities for Indian applicants. The US has traditionally been the top choice for Indian students, with tens of thousands pursuing undergraduate degrees each year. A country-level cap would mean even highly qualified students could be turned away simply because the quota for India had been filled,” said Ritesh Jain, Co-founder, LaunchEd Global.
(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...
Where do people get the money to do this? It’s financially crippling just to send a kid to a state university in my experience. But folks overseas have so much disposable income that this is so often a viable option?
Money laundering.
Hopefully getting rid of foreign students will cause schools to lower their tuitions to attract Americans (or offer better courses too I guess). Colleges look the other way on a lot of their foreign students since they make so much money off of them
Russian oligarchs.
Indian? What about Red Chinese!
This is one of many, many articles touting the misfortune and misery of Indians living here on visas. Try as I may, I cannot raise any sympathy for them.
In California, universities love these foreign students b/c they pay triple the tuition, pay in cash and pay upfront.
The UC’s here are crawling with them, especially from India and China.
Have no idea how they are able to afford it, or if their own government pays for at least some of it.
I do remember my son taking me to the student parking lot of his UC dorm and the lot being full of new BMWs, Mercedes, Porsches and other high end student cars.
1970’s. I remember plenty of mideast types on campus. Oil money. Now it’s gotta be manufacturing money from India and China.
Yes, FR has been LOADED with these boo-hoo sob story articles.
All I gotta say, as a former IT guy who has had to deal with these subcontinenetal scumbags is BOO-FREAKIN-HOO.
Shut it DOWN. Completely.
Sounds just like the old Nancy Pelosi argument about government money and the so-called "multiplier effect," which is bogus. Since the time Obama and the other Democrats turned the federal government into a lender for student loans -- now in default in a large number -- this argument has been made. Bogus.
Get government out of lending and those associated "loan guarantees," and tuition costs alone will tumble, while universities will shed their massive cadres of bureaucrats, who were "fed" by all forms of government funding.
On a side note, that report is done by "University Living Accommodation Pvt Ltd" which makes its MONEY placing students. Offices in the UK, India, Australia and -- tah-dah! -- these United States.
178 Columbus Ave #237190 SMB 32557 New York, NY 10023Just a couple of blocks northeast of Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Ka-ching.
Couldn’t come at a better time for my family. I have one looking for a Med/DO school and the other looking for a school with a decent pre-med program whose name doesn’t start with NC and end in State. Good enough for his brother, but not for him... spoiled brat.
The reasons for India to make a better trade deal with Trump keep piling up.
The foreign students coming here are not poor. Understatement. Many are the sons and daughters of the people who run their home countries. They live in expensive housing and drive expensive cars. They have their own lawyers to handle messy problems. It's not just a few foreignn students here. More than half the students at the Kennedy School are foreign.
No kiddin. “It’s for the children village”
Now do graduate schools.
A quarter century ago I quit my job as tenured engineering faculty at a large state land grant. I refer to myself as a “recovering academic”. All of our engineering programs were loaded to the gills with Indians and Chinese. Because they were in the US on student visas, and could not legally work, they were little more than indentured servants. They would do anything to avoid being sent home in disgrace.
Against all advice, I kept hiring US born students from the very state that had “ownership” of that university. Why was I advised to not hire US-born students? Because they could not be worked to death and might, in the middle of a research project, leave school and get a job.
The kicker is that almost all the engineering graduate students were on financial support either as Teaching Assistants or Research Assistants. They got tuition reimbursement and a small stipend but enough to live on. IOW engineering graduate school was completely free.
The out-of-state tuition for the non-US graduate students was substantially higher. If you wrote a grant proposal to a funding agency, almost always Federal, you were required to put in a line item to reimburse the out-of-state tuition. As was literally said to me “so we could be competitive for the best foreign students.”.
That’s right. The state and by proxy the Feds were intentionally subsidizing the foreign students. Why would a US-born student want to go to engineering graduate school and compete with the indentured servants?
As a condition of getting that student visa, the foreign student had to agree to go home after the completion of the degree. They almost never did. They would find a US company to sponsor them until they could get permanent residency. If they changed jobs the process would have to start all over so of course they could not quit. More years as an indentured servant.
The US company was allowed to hire them with the justification that there were no US-born students with advanced degrees. See the Catch 22?
China has copied the technology, and now has a factory cranking out their own version, the “Sharpei.”
The good news just keeps pouring in! I voted for this!
Who ever said the Brahmin caste was poor? These Indo kids are at the top economically in India. Plus corporations sponsor these stealers.
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