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cookszn | 7 months ago

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mapt|7 months ago

Right now there's a lot of

"In-state tuition: $10,000

Out-of-state tuition: $25,000

International student tuition: $50,000".

going on. Being the world's academy is one of our most overlooked, but most significant industries. Eliminate the moneymakers trying to escape the Gaokao and the cash has to come from somewhere; It certainly isn't going to be this administration.

philosophty|7 months ago

There are a limited number of seats at the best universities.

These top universities already have enough money to operate for a century as non-profits.

They're selling 15-20% of the seats to international rich people.

The appropriate number is probably more like 1.5% - 2.0%, with the rest going to American citizens.

Macha|7 months ago

Though the reason they are top universities is partly their ability to attract top talent (as most of these top university measures are based on things like "number of papers published"), which this is going to impact.

hoegarden|7 months ago

The American rags will publish the same number of articles which all need to cite from earlier rags, and they will probably keep or increase biases toward more American authors, so no one will notice when the US is irrelevant by a quantitative analysis.

verst|7 months ago

Aren't those spots for international students often created because international students pay the full (or even more than full) cost, thereby subsidizing other operations at the university. Sometimes international students pay more than out of stage students too.

Depending on the financial model, eliminating spots for international students may in fact have the adverse affect of also eliminating spots for domestic students.

lp251|7 months ago

shame they won't be as good

martin-t|7 months ago

People won't like how you said it but there is truth to it. Pretty much all students from my uni who went on exchanges to the US said the level over there is much lower and they were way above the local students.

This was not the case elsewhere, most notably in Asian countries.

There is some truth to every stereotype.

philosophty|7 months ago

Given how easy it is for rich people to buy grades for their children in most countries, we might see an improvement.