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Columbia University, depending on international students for income, is confronted with financial tension due to Trump's immigration policy, which threatens its 40% foreign student population. This could scare up future students and influence the US competitiveness in education.
The dependence on Columbia University of foreign students for its core income now appears to be the Achilles heel. The aggressive tactics of the Trump administration against immigration are draining the university of its finances.
About 40 percent of the student pool of Columbia University consists of international students. Students pay $ 70,000 plus tuition fees, but international students bring the university to what Trump froze two months ago in its federal research funds – $ 903.1 million.
Columbia University is in third place in the US for international students, but it appears to be difficult every day with Trump's hardline policy policy.
Although the Trump government was more furious with Harvard University, the Columbia also remains vulnerable to the White House because of the makeup.
“It is a large part of their student population that pays differential prices than domestic students differentially. I am sure it is a very serious concern of that of them,” said Jordan Matsudaira, a former deputy education study of the Biden administration. “They have a huge donation, but there are limitations to how much they can spend from year to year.”
Apart from Columbia, there is New York University and Northeastern University, as a destination for international students in the year 2023-2024 school year. As for NYU, where Barron Trump is present, anti-Israel protests have not attracted much attention.
According to a report from Polico, international students are “looking for an exit route”, the graduate student who spoke with the publication, Ranjani Srinivasan, a doctoral candidate from Columbia who left for Canada, quoted her student visa.
“I am getting ready with a visa to go to Canada, because what happened to Ranjani could happen to me and I might have to leave at night,” the student said.
“This cold not only weakens our community – it undermines our national interests. Our universities attract the most talented students and scientists from all over the world – more than a million arrived last year. A lot of analysis has already been done on the impact of that loss on our economy and society,” said Claire Shipman of Columbia, said Claire Shipman of Columbia.
In the midst of Trump's immigration policy and unrest with regard to research spending, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled half a billion-euro 'Choose Europe for Science' plan to attract foreign researchers this month.
The Trump government came close to withdrawing Visa from more than 1,600 international students from 7 May, but many of those cancellations have been reversed after judges have issued restrictive orders.
“This will prevent foreign students from coming to the United States,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler (DN.Y.), whose district neighborhoods Columbia. “And they go to China … and they stay in China and contribute to the economy there.”
However, some Republicans believe that fewer students who come to rich institutions, such as Columbia University, will not make much difference, because “they all pay the same tuition of the private school,” said Diane Auer Jones, an official of the educational department during the first Trump administration.
Some people also believe that growing anti -Semitism in the campuses should be curbed and “goes back to what our university experience should be” Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) said: “To be productive, to understand our country and respect our culture. If that doesn't happen, they have to go back home,” he said.
