By Kaylee Kang, Jamie Dowell and Helen Coaster
(Reuters) -The University of Dupaul has told the faculty that it will reduce the expenditure immediately after a 30% decline in international enrollment in this decline. The move is the latest to deal with President Donald Trump’s disruptive education and immigration policies by American colleges.
University President Robert Manuel wrote in a memorandum for the faculty on Tuesday, but the amount of decrease in the shortage can be determined, but measures may include a hiring freeze, executive salary deduction and discretionary expenses.
The total international enrollment at the private Catholic University in Chicago was reduced by 755 students compared to last year, the manual said. The number of first year international graduate students fell at about 62%-even at a speed. Depall enrolled some 21,000 students last year, of which about 2,500 were from abroad.
The manual blamed this year’s decline to the students who have difficulty in obtaining visas and lost interest in studying in the US after a change in federal policy.
Depaul is one of the dozens of schools that have announced a budget cut in response to the policies of the Trump administration that are increasing higher education. This includes dangers for funding billions of dollars for educational research programs, many of which serve as strong lorses for students from abroad. Full enrollment figures are not yet available, but the initial number collected by Reuters suggests that many first -year international graduate students are choosing to study elsewhere.
Student visas have also been in Trump’s crosshair. Some visas have been canceled, and students seeking new visas have faced delays. The US State Department has required potential students to make their social media account public so that government officials get visa applications, which can screen students understood for hostile views towards the United States.
In May, the administration stopped Harvard University from nominating international students, saying that the university failed to address antisementism and ethnic oppression in the campus. The US district court temporarily blocked the action, but the government has filed an appeal.
Manual wrote to the faculty of Depall, “We are all concerned about the new financial challenges inspired by the safety of our community, security of educational freedom, and change in federal funding and visa processing.” “These concerns are so serious and weak that it is now difficult to identify higher education.”
Asked for remarks, the US State and Homeland Security Departments sent statements to notice the rights of the government, which see the police rights for the work of students studying abroad.
“This is not difficult,” said Trisia McLaglin, Assistant Secretary, Department of Homeland Security. “If you are living and studying in the United States on a visa, you are a guest in this country. If you are a foreign student who takes forward the promotion, then proud the terrorists who glorify terrorists, who remember the killing of Americans, are harassing the Jews, or other anti-aericians who are harassing the Jews, which are taking these camosaries, who are harassing the Jews, who are harassing the Jews, who are harassing the Jews, which are taking these camosaries. But you can see recently, you can give yourself a ticket. ”
Apart from Depaul, at least 35 other schools have announced a budget cut in response to the policies of the Trump administration. The University of Johns Hopkins reduced over 2,000 jobs in March, as the administration cut its research programs by $ 800 million. Northwestern University cut 425 posts, and the University of Southern California closed more than 630; Each reduced federal funding, a expected decline in international student enrollment and other financial pressures.
Federal policies affect student decisions
In an interview with Reuters, some students cited federal policies in explaining their enrollment decisions.
A student from India who was accepted to the University of California, Davis said that he has decided to postpone the entry and is considering other options due to uncertainty about obtaining the student visa. “My parents were also afraid that if I go now, I could be exiled or something else,” he said.
In 2024, a Chinese student graduating from Northwestern University was accepted at an American program to pursue PhD in economics, but said he decided to enroll in the United Kingdom, as due to uncertainty around the visa, jointly with uncertain research funds.
“Except for one of my professors, they all suggested that if I have a non-US option, I should think carefully about it,” he said. “So I made that option.”
The initial number shows a decline
NAFSA: Association of International Educators, according to estimates by a non-profit organization, some 1.2 million international students in the US during the 2024–2025 academic year studied. In July, NAFSA estimated that the number would fall to 15% this year, causing the cost of the US economy to be around $ 7 billion.
The universities are still matching their downfall nominations, this is to compile nationwide data very soon. According to data from Homeland Security Students and Exchange Visitor Program, the number of international students studying in the US this month is 2.4% less than September – 965,437 to 942,131. However, these numbers do not portray the entire picture, as the number of incoming and outgoing students is in the flux, and some schools have not yet reported their decline number.
Reuters spoke to administrators or spokes in 10 schools with consecutive high foreign enrollment. All reports have declined in overall international student enrollment-from 1% dip in the University of Ilinois to the fall of 19% in the university in Buffalo. Illinois has nominated 13,268 international students, and Buffalo has 4,087.
Both schools nominated this decline as more international new people. But the standing decline in the number of graduate students enrolled from abroad dropped their overall foreign enrollment yoga down. The decline between first year graduate students was most clear. Illinois Urabana-Shampain has seen 22% decline and Buffalo, 58%.
Any decrease in enrollment between first-year students has a compound effect, Dr. Fanta, Executive Director and Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA said. When the students of the first year master’s program admitted opt for not enrollment, a school loses its tuition for two years.
Increasing that pain is the fact that many international students are ineligible for financial assistance and thus pay full tuition. They are an important revenue source for many schools, trying to reduce domestic enrollment, increase operating costs and cut government funding.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration asked universities to sign a deal that could squeeze many schools even more. This international graduate enrollment wants to cap at 15%.
A memorandum for universities shared by a White House official said, “Universities who rely on foreign students fund the risk of their institutions, along with other things, reduce the spots available to American students, potentially.”
In June, the credit rating agency Moody’s warned that the enrollment may offer credit risk to some schools by falling. Among the weakest people, it is reported that there are schools with graduate programs that rely too much on international students. The report states that this dependence has increased in the last decade.
“Graduate students often pay high tuition fees for some programs, so the loss of these students may have a particularly serious revenue effects,” the report states.
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