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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by jswelker on Sunday November 30, 2025 @12:27AM (#46094076)
The F1 issue is absolutely real. Foreign students have been the secret sauce in keeping prices lower for US students for a long time now. Trump 1 and now Trump 2 presidencies have created financial crises at most universities just by making vague anti immigration gestures without even materially changing student visas. Presidents and provosts routinely make desperate oversea sales pitches to try to gin up the pipeline. I know of one major state university whose entire financial existence depends on visas from a few companies in Hyderabad.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by haritha-j on Sunday November 30, 2025 @02:08AM (#46094508)
Vague isn't the word I would use to describe Trump's anti immigration gestures.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by jswelker on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:45AM (#46097046)
True, but with respect to the university visa system at least it is pretty vague. The ICE stuff is not targeting Chinese and Indian uni students.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by vasco on Sunday November 30, 2025 @02:52AM (#46094716)
> have created financial crises at most universities

Those multi-billion dollar endowments are fine man, don't worry about them, they're not running out.

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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by immibis on Sunday November 30, 2025 @08:33AM (#46096505)
At 4% a billion dollars yields 40 million per year, if you have 1000 staff that's 40k each, barely pays a salary.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by vasco on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:22AM (#46131201)
Yeah and if you had 100k staff it's a pittance!
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by jswelker on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:47AM (#46097064)
I'm not talking about Ivy schools. I mean regional state and private schools that educate the majority of people who attend college. These do not have multi billion dollar endowments unless you are summing them all up.
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Re:Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as wort... by qweqweqwe12 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:15AM (#46095440)
> Trump 1 and now Trump 2 presidencies have created financial crises at most universities

Worst financial crisis at any university was probably caused by himself at his own scam Trump University, long before he become president.

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