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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the general point that a number of colleges use foreign students to supplement both their top line and the quality of their engineering/science programs.  The previous examples of Harvard and Yale just don't stand up to this narrative, however.  Both of these schools could fill their classes 5 times over with full-fee-paying American students.  Their decisions to admit international students and target Pell-grant eligible American students (roughly 2.5 times the poverty rate, making up 18-20% of their recent classes) are both matters of choice and not necessity.  It is also worth noting that the faculty of both of these universities is well in excess of 10% foreign born.

Further, if you look at other world-class liberal arts universities across the globe (excepting the purely test-driven technology institutions in Asia) they tend to have similar percentages of non-domestic students (10% or more), with some significantly higher (e.g. Oxford University is 40% non English).  We live in a world economy.  Xenophobic attitudes are not a long-term winning strategy.

My one point of sympathy is with public institutions that were specifically designed to educate local/regional citizenry, like state schools, land-grant schools and community colleges.  Perhaps better public funding of education would relieve them of the pressure to seek full-freight students from abroad? [/quote]

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