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Stunning campus collapse as Trump's student-visa squeeze sends a billion-dollar shockwave
The Daily Mail ^ | 28 Nov 2025 | ELINA SHIRAZI

Posted on 11/28/2025 7:48:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The number of new international college students in the United States has plunged by double digits, a new report by the Institute of International Education reveals — even as domestic student numbers continue to rise.

Enrollment has fallen by 17 percent this fall after a shift that could cost the US an estimated $1.1 billion and eliminate 23,000 jobs nationwide, according to the analysis.

The sharp decline in foreign students follows a series of Trump administration moves to tighten immigration rules, including reduced access to student visas.

Schools were urged to limit the number of foreign students they admit, while a 19–country travel ban that has been in effect for about 6–months, paused student visa interviews, and created outright cancellations of some visas that have made it substantially harder for students overseas to enter American campuses.

Russian anthropology student Polina Igumnova, who arrived at Hamilton College in New York in summer 2023, reports that foreign students are now avoiding the US for college, instead choosing universities in Europe and the Middle East.

'They don't feel welcome or safe necessarily coming here based on what we have seen lately,' she explained.

She says she hasn't seen her family since she came to the states. The risk of having to reapply for a visa is too great.

'I haven't been able to leave the country since Trump came into office because of my visa... It takes some people up to half a year to get visa interviews in some cases,' Igumnova said. 'I obviously won't be going home for the holidays.'

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1 posted on 11/28/2025 7:48:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Article sounds like winning to me.


2 posted on 11/28/2025 7:51:12 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Addition by Subtraction


3 posted on 11/28/2025 7:51:19 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Winning!!


4 posted on 11/28/2025 7:54:31 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

They should turn over all student debt back to the Universities and demand repayment.


5 posted on 11/28/2025 7:57:39 AM PST by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cost the US?

Colleges don’t think about shrinking their visa dependent, government funding-dependent out of control costs, salaries, personnel bloat, tuitions

They will have to do so


6 posted on 11/28/2025 7:57:40 AM PST by stanne
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“The number of new international college students in the United States has plunged by double digits”

Sooo, 10 students didn’t show up?


7 posted on 11/28/2025 7:58:50 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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“Russian anthropology student Polina Igumnova, who arrived at Hamilton College in New York in summer 2023, .....”

Why is’t’ she studying RUSSIAN ANTHROPOLOGY in her own country???? Why take up the space an American student can be occupying???

So, is her visa expired? Sure sounds like it - DEPORT.

“She says she hasn’t seen her family since she came to the states. The risk of having to reapply for a visa is too great.

‘I haven’t been able to leave the country since Trump came into office because of my visa... It takes some people up to half a year to get visa interviews in some cases,’ Igumnova said. ‘I obviously won’t be going home for the holidays.’”


8 posted on 11/28/2025 8:01:47 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/education/university/admission-entry-conditions/index_en.htm

Regardless of the other entry conditions, you may not be refused access to training or education in another EU country on grounds of your nationality.


9 posted on 11/28/2025 8:03:20 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Enrollment has fallen by 17 percent this fall after a shift that could cost the US an estimated $1.1 billion and eliminate 23,000 jobs nationwide, according to the analysis.

Aw the poor "professors", cry me a river.

10 posted on 11/28/2025 8:03:26 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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That’s one way to make tuition cheaper


11 posted on 11/28/2025 8:03:32 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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“They don’t feel welcome or safe “

Funny, that’s how American Jewish students feel when foreign students act up


12 posted on 11/28/2025 8:04:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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BUH-BYE - to the legions of imported s**tholians AND our overbuilt, exploitative and corrupt College Industrial Complex.


13 posted on 11/28/2025 8:07:42 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Time to raise tuition, no problem!


14 posted on 11/28/2025 8:08:46 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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I love “feel good” stories like this.


15 posted on 11/28/2025 8:08:46 AM PST by Liz ("Socialism is a wonderful idea. It's just that it's been disastrous" Thomas Sowell. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Unless these universities have a 100% acceptance rate, they have an option, accept American students. Or make the case that American students are just too stupid for their institution.


16 posted on 11/28/2025 8:09:10 AM PST by SJackson (All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism)
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A US official from the State Department defended the stricter process, saying, ‘A US visa is a privilege, not a right… As President Trump has said, we want to have great students here. The United States remains the global leader in higher education as the number one destination for international students... while ensuring only the top talent enter our nation’


from the article.

It will take time to transition our educational system. This is a reboot to the basics of education. In the longterm we will be sitting well. MAGA


17 posted on 11/28/2025 8:09:39 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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could cost the US an estimated $1.1 billion

In today's dollars, that is somewhere between chump change and lunch money. Get back to me when it reduces tuition by 10% or more.

18 posted on 11/28/2025 8:12:05 AM PST by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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Guess they’ll have to start tapping into those billion-dollar endowment funds.


19 posted on 11/28/2025 8:13:36 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

My nephew’s application to the University of Mich. Med School was a delayed a year due to the class filled with foreign nationals.


20 posted on 11/28/2025 8:16:25 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (uest)
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