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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by wcummings on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:13AM (#14147820)
Foreign students pay full tuition, domestic students rarely do. Simple as that. This applies to public and private schools. Universities deliberately recruit international students for this reason.

I think parent is right, no international students likely means higher tuition for everyone else. If you're in doubt, ask someone who works in admissions, I expect they'll tell you the same thing.

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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by johnnyb9 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:48PM (#14149194)
My point is that international students may "subsidize" the university, but in practice this should have very little to do with what the university would charge its students (they are not "subsidizing" the domestic students). Implicit in your assumption is that tuition uses cost-based pricing which I find hard to believe. Admittedly this is all conjecture on my part but I don't find that line of reasoning persuasive.
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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by wcummings on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:51PM (#14151648)
Students that pay full freight absolutely subsidize those who don't, and a lot of the people who can afford full tuition are foreign.

http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/2014/6/17/international-enro...

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