As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting

Re:As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel... by anxrn on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:50AM (#16059077)

Recent surveys do appear to support a slowdown in international graduate school enrollments ([1] summary, [2] original study).

Furthermore, this trend predates the immigration policies of the current administration, and I suspect this trend has further strengthened.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/28/graduate-scho... [2] http://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CGS_GED16_Report_...

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Re:As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:58AM (#16059325)

Both of those state there is a slowdown in enrollment percentage (and only .9% at that), not absolute numbers. There are still more international graduate students in 2017 than in any previous year.

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Re:As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel... by anxrn on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:54PM (#16063198)

This might be semantics, but a slowdown means exactly that: a drop in growth rate.

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