EDUCATION/IMMIGRATION: “International students accepted to U.S. schools are planning to enroll at a similar rate as last year in most areas except the southern part of the country, especially Texas, according to data from 165 U.S. colleges and universities.
The enrollment numbers help dispel fears that President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric would scare international students away…
More than one million international students were enrolled in U.S. schools during the 2015-16 academic year, according to the IIE. International students contributed more than $35 billion to the U.S. economy in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. There are 85% more international students studying at U.S. institutions than were reported a decade ago.
U.S. colleges and universities have become increasingly dependent on the revenue from international students. Public schools often charge international students two to three times what domestic students pay, helping offset the decline in state funding for public universities since the credit crisis and the demographic dip in college-aged students.
The rate of international students accepted to a U.S. school that plan on enrolling held steady in the West and Northeast and declined by 5 percentage points each in the South and Midwest.”
-Doug Belkin and Newley Purnell, “Political Lines Shape U.S. College Picks of Some Foreign Students,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 6, 2017 06:00am