Enrollment of Indians drops 75%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

Trump increased Chinese students by 600,000.

China is playing Trump like a violin. They buy his Trump coin cryptos for hundreds of millions of dollars and there are so many favorable policies towards China now. Meanwhile, China hasn't bought any soybeans from American farmers for months following the Trump tariffs, and we the taxpayer are paying the soybean farmers to do nothing. MAGA!

China is buying from Canada now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

A culture that exports its own children has no hope

Don't be an idiot. People from overseas come here for an education for many reasons. They pay alot to do so and offset instate and other discounted tuition. They, in general, work hard and contribute to science, tech, etc. Some of them stay longer, temporarily or permanently. And they are set up for a better life. This is a sort of soft diplomacy that is important, esp with the rest of it getting gutted by the Orange Menace.

Reading comprehension is not your forte, PP.

The Indians enroll in American universities as part of the scam immigration pipeline. They're stealing jobs, they know they're stealing jobs so they're careful to game the system. It's a big problem. Where have you been while this subject has been discussed here on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Who cares? People are people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

A culture that exports its own children has no hope

Don't be an idiot. People from overseas come here for an education for many reasons. They pay alot to do so and offset instate and other discounted tuition. They, in general, work hard and contribute to science, tech, etc. Some of them stay longer, temporarily or permanently. And they are set up for a better life. This is a sort of soft diplomacy that is important, esp with the rest of it getting gutted by the Orange Menace.

Reading comprehension is not your forte, PP.

The Indians enroll in American universities as part of the scam immigration pipeline. They're stealing jobs, they know they're stealing jobs so they're careful to game the system. It's a big problem. Where have you been while this subject has been discussed here on DCUM?

Don’t just the circle jerk for the elites

[Anonymous]

While Americans are laid off, Washington keeps expanding work permits for foreign spouses and students.

This is how U.S. jobs are being replaced.. legally and silently.

'These policies erect structural advantages for non-Americans that depress wages, reduce job prospects for citizens and enable discriminatory hiring and offshoring'

https://www.wnd.com/2026/01/how-work-permits-foreign-spouses-students-hurt-americans/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It is apparent that Indians study in US to get a US job. Since h1b and opt are getting restricted and may go away, Indian are rethinking the value of a US education.

And since they can’t rely on US job then the don’t want a US education

Had nothing to do with the excellence of US universities and everything to do with US globalists wanting cheap labor

Yes, it’s this. No more easy OPT and H1-B. I can’t believe there are 9 pages of posts about “racism” but very few actually discussing the real cause.
It may not help American kids applying to colleges that much, but it may help them find jobs after graduation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What changed to cause this big drop?

You can't possibly be serious.

What is the cause?

Trump pooped all over America's brand

Tough to send your brown kids here

That is it? Trump made America unpopular, and thus Indians stopped coming?
Is there anything more substantial? This doesn't seem like something that would cause three out of four students to not come.

Its harder to get a visa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

A culture that exports its own children has no hope

What a strange reaction from a poster that is most certainly descended from immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

A culture that exports its own children has no hope

What a strange reaction from a poster that is most certainly descended from immigrants.

I wish Germany hadn't exported Trump's grandfather; Scotland Trump's mother; Slovenia Trump's wife and her family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It is apparent that Indians study in US to get a US job. Since h1b and opt are getting restricted and may go away, Indian are rethinking the value of a US education.

And since they can’t rely on US job then the don’t want a US education

Had nothing to do with the excellence of US universities and everything to do with US globalists wanting cheap labor

Yes, it’s this. No more easy OPT and H1-B. I can’t believe there are 9 pages of posts about “racism” but very few actually discussing the real cause.
It may not help American kids applying to colleges that much, but it may help them find jobs after graduation.

I don't have a problem with restrictive visas, but Trump's admin and MAGA are overtly racist and only want white European or South Afrikaners immigrants/refugees. That's why what he's doing stinks of racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More help for US citizens

Indian student enrollment in US universities has dropped by nearly 75% in the first year of the second administration of Donald Trump.

According to reports from various education consultants, this is due to visa checks, fewer interview slots, and large-scale visa cancellations as the main reasons behind this sharp fall.

Reacting to the situation, V. Ramgopal Rao, Vice-Chancellor of BITS Pilani, said the sharp fall in enrolments should not be seen as temporary.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/study/indian-students-turn-away-from-us-as-visas-dry-up-under-trump/articleshow/126761020.cms

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/01/immigration-data-indicate-indian-student-enrollment-may-plummet/

A culture that exports its own children has no hope

What a strange reaction from a poster that is most certainly descended from immigrants.

Why? OP's ancestors exported their children, and USA became the cultural leader of the world.

I'm here because of Nazis, who did in fact have no hope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:More room for Americans. Awesome!

Less competition from Asian students, means less-qualified Americans get in.

Let's see, how's that work???

My child's grad stem program was, until this year, considered the best in the world.

Not the US, the WORLD.

About half the students in her cohort were from Asia.

Excluding these students means my DD's grad program is no longer be the best in the world.

Those brilliant students from Asia are enrolling in European and Canadian universities now, making European and Canadian stem programs the best in the world.

America second -- or third or fourth or fifth....

Yea!!!

Why do these brilliant students need to go overseas to make foreign programs the best of the world if they can stay home and make local programs the best.

I see reading comprehension is not your forte.

The American programs are no longer getting the best students in the world because Trump is keeping those brilliant students out of our country.

That means that our very well-funded programs don't have the greatest minds to work on them, to create the next technological breakthroughs. We have to accept less qualified, less intelligent American students into our programs, and thus, our well-funded programs aren't the top programs, aren't doing the most cutting edge research, aren't winning all the top prizes.

See, it's like we've got high schoolers driving our race cars, because the best NASCAR drivers have fled to Europe and Canada. Makes the races a lot less competitive and entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More room for Americans. Awesome!

Less competition from Asian students, means less-qualified Americans get in.

Let's see, how's that work???

My child's grad stem program was, until this year, considered the best in the world.

Not the US, the WORLD.

About half the students in her cohort were from Asia.

Excluding these students means my DD's grad program is no longer be the best in the world.

Those brilliant students from Asia are enrolling in European and Canadian universities now, making European and Canadian stem programs the best in the world.

America second -- or third or fourth or fifth....

Yea!!!

Why do these brilliant students need to go overseas to make foreign programs the best of the world if they can stay home and make local programs the best.

Universities are rapidly becoming irrelevant and even STEM degrees from Stanford, Princeton MIT, Harvard etc. are becoming worthless (Harvard , Wharton MBAs unable to find jobs).

Degree from MIT will be useless if the graduate cannot utilize various AI agents to produce results worth 10 or 20 humans.

The era of pretending to be capable/competent just because of a degree from a prestigious university is over! The selection criteria will be to judge how you think, how you approach a problem, how you adapt, what you have produced alone utilizing AI etc. and how well can you tell if AI is incorrect/hallucinating.

Sorry, no.

Didn't get into MIT, didja?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More room for Americans. Awesome!

Less competition from Asian students, means less-qualified Americans get in.

Let's see, how's that work???

My child's grad stem program was, until this year, considered the best in the world.

Not the US, the WORLD.

About half the students in her cohort were from Asia.

Excluding these students means my DD's grad program is no longer be the best in the world.

Those brilliant students from Asia are enrolling in European and Canadian universities now, making European and Canadian stem programs the best in the world.

America second -- or third or fourth or fifth....

Yea!!!

Why do these brilliant students need to go overseas to make foreign programs the best of the world if they can stay home and make local programs the best.

What a dumb comment. They go overseas because of reputation. Why don’t you send your kid to the local community college so they help improve its programs?

The comment is not dumb, but you are. First you made a stupid comment then missed the point of the response.

The purpose of attending a good college is not to improve its program as you state in your original comment, but learn from the best. Thus all your brilliant students attend good colleges overseas, because that’s where the best teach. So who cares, if they stay home and don’t come here. Universities can hire the best professors from overseas, not bring foreign students.

When you call a stupid person stupid, they just get mad. That's because they're stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More room for Americans. Awesome!

Less competition from Asian students, means less-qualified Americans get in.

Let's see, how's that work???

My child's grad stem program was, until this year, considered the best in the world.

Not the US, the WORLD.

About half the students in her cohort were from Asia.

Excluding these students means my DD's grad program is no longer be the best in the world.

Those brilliant students from Asia are enrolling in European and Canadian universities now, making European and Canadian stem programs the best in the world.

America second -- or third or fourth or fifth....

Yea!!!

Why do these brilliant students need to go overseas to make foreign programs the best of the world if they can stay home and make local programs the best.

What a dumb comment. They go overseas because of reputation. Why don’t you send your kid to the local community college so they help improve its programs?

The comment is not dumb, but you are. First you made a stupid comment then missed the point of the response.

The purpose of attending a good college is not to improve its program as you state in your original comment, but learn from the best. Thus all your brilliant students attend good colleges overseas, because that’s where the best teach. So who cares, if they stay home and don’t come here. Universities can hire the best professors from overseas, not bring foreign students.

You have no concept of how universities operate. Indians, topic of the thread, come to USA for job opportunities via no name colleges. (Good for them. We need smart people in USA.)

People go to "good" colleges for prestige, not for better education. The prestigious researches aren't putting energy into teaching, and aren't good teachers.

Clearly, you never attended an "elite" institution. Maybe not even a "good" one.