The charts are interesting but, unfortunately, backward looking. Trump has made it much less attractive for foreign students to come to the USA. According to the latest Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) data, international student enrollment in the United States declined by approximately 11% between March 2024 and March 2025. Trumps attacks and defunding of science and research has further reduced scientific studies, especially at the graduate level. A new chart for a future "Six -Chart Sunday" could explore this trend and other trends we see in less foreign tourism. Canada is a great example.
On the downside, referencing back to your chart on the "perception gap" a couple of weeks ago, college also tends to make Democrat-aligned students 300% more likely to negatively misjudge their fellow citizens and surround themselves with like-minded echo chambers. That's something that should definitely be addressed.
“Crowding Out” diminishes the nature of the discriminating nature of excluding American Citizens (taxpayers subsidizing the schools) over full price paying foreign students. Title XI forbids discrimination based on “country of origin” however every school boasts the number of states and countries of student enrollment.
Why is it a good thing to export education to other countries instead of plowing them back into our institutions and industries? And we subsidize this?
If those students were the best and brightest from other countries but they are NOT. They are the children of rich elites, dignitaries and politicians who donate money and have an open checkbook. The Hunter Biden’s or what is sometimes referred to as rich Eurotrash. Not necessarily those that return home with any American values like meritocracy. Why would they? If they were held to the same admission standards (or even close) as everyone else maybe, but that is not what THIS experience teaches them. Money and privilege talks, while Americans students are saddled with backbreaking student loans. Plus, those students leave and contribute ZERO future dollars to our tax base.
Let me put this in perspective for you, since you don't see the forest for the trees: After WWII USA was still second-rate academically - and scientifically nowhere near Germany or Britain - so what changed? USA became the dominant super-power defining (tautologically) the highest form of evil - and so of course all would-be Satan's needed to learn there - and be able to do all the things Satan needed them to do to expand his empire. But Satan changes course every now and then, he just did (and called it MAGA), and that's when all the would-be's (and commentators) need to reposition - and may wonder whether what they had understood to be Satan's purpose was going to be served in future, too🤣
The charts are interesting but, unfortunately, backward looking. Trump has made it much less attractive for foreign students to come to the USA. According to the latest Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) data, international student enrollment in the United States declined by approximately 11% between March 2024 and March 2025. Trumps attacks and defunding of science and research has further reduced scientific studies, especially at the graduate level. A new chart for a future "Six -Chart Sunday" could explore this trend and other trends we see in less foreign tourism. Canada is a great example.
On the downside, referencing back to your chart on the "perception gap" a couple of weeks ago, college also tends to make Democrat-aligned students 300% more likely to negatively misjudge their fellow citizens and surround themselves with like-minded echo chambers. That's something that should definitely be addressed.
“Crowding Out” diminishes the nature of the discriminating nature of excluding American Citizens (taxpayers subsidizing the schools) over full price paying foreign students. Title XI forbids discrimination based on “country of origin” however every school boasts the number of states and countries of student enrollment.
Why is it a good thing to export education to other countries instead of plowing them back into our institutions and industries? And we subsidize this?
If those students were the best and brightest from other countries but they are NOT. They are the children of rich elites, dignitaries and politicians who donate money and have an open checkbook. The Hunter Biden’s or what is sometimes referred to as rich Eurotrash. Not necessarily those that return home with any American values like meritocracy. Why would they? If they were held to the same admission standards (or even close) as everyone else maybe, but that is not what THIS experience teaches them. Money and privilege talks, while Americans students are saddled with backbreaking student loans. Plus, those students leave and contribute ZERO future dollars to our tax base.
Let me put this in perspective for you, since you don't see the forest for the trees: After WWII USA was still second-rate academically - and scientifically nowhere near Germany or Britain - so what changed? USA became the dominant super-power defining (tautologically) the highest form of evil - and so of course all would-be Satan's needed to learn there - and be able to do all the things Satan needed them to do to expand his empire. But Satan changes course every now and then, he just did (and called it MAGA), and that's when all the would-be's (and commentators) need to reposition - and may wonder whether what they had understood to be Satan's purpose was going to be served in future, too🤣