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🎓 Trump’s Foreign Student Policy Shake-Up: $7B Risk for U.S. Universities 💸🌍

Trump’s renewed push to tighten visa and enrollment rules for international students is sending shockwaves across American campuses. 🇺🇸✈️ Many universities, which rely heavily on foreign students for tuition revenue and global diversity, now face potential losses of up to $7 billion.

Stricter visa vetting, limits on post-study work (OPT), and uncertainty around renewals are discouraging new applicants — especially from China and India. 🧳📉 Prestigious institutions like Harvard and MIT have already fought similar policies in court, warning that reduced international enrollment threatens not just finances, but innovation and global competitiveness. ⚖️💼

These policies could:

Drain key revenue streams amid falling domestic enrollment 💰

Undermine research output and talent diversity 🧠🌐

Push students toward friendlier destinations like the UK, Canada, and Australia 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺

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