Re:Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
by garden_hermit on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:40AM
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Generally speaking, foreign students subsidize public universities by paying full sticker price for tuition, whereas US students are either in state (paying less) or often receive scholarships and support.
Foreign students are not stealing “slots” from Americans. If anything, their tuition dollars make more slots available.
Re:Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
by potato3732842 on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:20AM
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That's like trying to apply "the average american gets 20% of their fiber..." type nutrition information to a 500lb obese person.
It's probably true but not really meaningful in the broader context.
With the current easy money federally backed loans US university funding model the foreign students are just easy money on top of an already screaming money printer more than a noteworthy subsidy of their operations.
Re:Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
by v5v3 on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:47AM
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In some countries foreign students are charged a higher price for a course than domestic students.
Re:Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
by newswasboring on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:10PM
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That includes USA. Most programs charge foreign students more as they don't get any state subsidies.
Re:Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
by corimaith on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:51AM
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Assuming funding correlates to more slots, which is not really true. The number of important professors to take mentorship from, the number of research lab slots are certainly lagging the increased funding, if increasing at all.
The money might be going into nicer buildings or administrative costs, but it's also a white elephant once the foreign funding dries up as the domestic situation improves for many internationals. After which then these universities find themselves in major trouble.
As an aside, I think there's another equally important issue that should also be raised along with employment. A large number of our graduate+ degrees in STEM go to foreign nationals. The issue is not providing education to foreign nationals in and of itself, but that many of these degrees (public schools) are funded by tax payers, and we are depriving our country of an educated population while educating citizens in other countries who compete with our country globally. Private schools can and should do whatever is in their mission, but public schools should have some accountability to our citizens and tax payers. We all have a right to get value for the money that we put into things like our public university system, which is supposed to be training future leaders of our country.
Of course with that longwinded answer I have to say... Tech is like the weather, just wait for a minute its all going to change anyway, so don't stress all of this.