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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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