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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by sitkack on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:04PM (#23837074)
Lots of top tier universities are already opening foreign campuses. Future students will just end up there. This move accelerated the rise of foreign top tier mind work at the expense of that work in the USA. Couple this with the antagonistic stance by the administration to foreign highly capable workers and you have a recipe for a tech softening in the USA.

This is good for the world. Part of me sees this as a cynical ploy to tear down others' futures to support the base. I do think the US needs massive education reform, costs are through the roof and large universities are farming foreign students but this isn't the way to do it.

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by asciident on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:12PM (#23837974)
Those foreign campuses are also known to be a joke and cash grabs. Foreign governments pay universities basically to use their brand, they pay some professors to visit for a month and put that campus's affiliation on a few papers, and claim that they are publishing state-of-the-art research and training their own students. Meanwhile, none of those students are prepared, and the campus doesn't attract any students besides local students, so it's just a local institution with a foreign brand.
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by grugagag on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:16PM (#23837247)
Can you expand on this please? What countries are these campuses in?
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by briandear on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:34PM (#23837479)
Here is one: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by grugagag on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#23838717)
I see, a new NYU campus in Abu-Dhabi, but is it still NYU if it's based in in Abu Dhabi? Wouldn;t that be more like ADU (funded by NYU)?

I wonder how they'll compare tuition wise and whether that would incentivize foreign students to stay home. New York is a very expensive city but it is also a different experience.

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