Anxiety spreads as Trump administration revokes over 1,000 student visas. Many international learners fill jobs in science and technology.
Roughly half of international students are from China or India — and many are grad students or recent graduates permitted to work on a student visa for a time after graduation.
But they’re not quite back to pre-pandemic levels, and they’re coming from different parts of the world.
The Cato Institute found that the United States denied 35% of international student visas in 2022 — the highest denial percentage in decades.
International students are more likely to pay sticker price for a degree.
Chinese students spend years mapping out the path to U.S. colleges. The pandemic has disrupted all of that.
The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country.
Hundreds of thousands of foreign students may not enroll at British schools in the next academic year.
Whether they’re heading home or finding a way to remain on campus, international students have had their semesters upended by COVID-19.
College leaders do not want to lose out on some one million overseas students.
