Dive Summary:
- Since 2006, the number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities has grown by about 200,000 —up to more than 764,000 — with China sending the most students.
- With state funding to higher education on the decline, international students paying full tuition — or even a premium in some cases — help shore up institutions' budgets.
- The situation is not completely rosy: There are complaints that foreign students crowd local students out of their own state schools, and some foreign students complain that American universities take advantage of them through extra fees.
From the article:
... At Purdue, the tuition paid by international undergraduates since 2007 accounts for almost half of all the new revenue it has raised through tuition. This is partly because of the expanding enrollment of international students, and partly because of the tuition hikes Purdue has specifically levied on students from abroad. ...
