Universities worldwide are seeking to provide a shelter for students who are affected by President Donald Trump’s suppression of academic institutions, and targets the best talents and segment of billions of academic revenues in the United States.
Osaka University, one of the best photographers in Japan, offers exemptions from tuition fees, research scholarships, and helps in traveling arrangements for students and researchers in American institutions who want to transfer.
The Japanese University of Kyoto and the University of Tokyo are also studying similar plans, while Hong Kong has ordered its universities to attract the best talents from the United States. The University of China appealed to Xian Jiaotong for students at Harvard University, and provided the campaign of Mr. Trump, the promising “simplified” and “comprehensive” support.
The administration of Mr. Trump has enriched huge financing discounts for academic research, and visas for foreign students – especially those from China – and plans to raise taxes on elite schools.
Mr. Trump claims that the best American universities are blown away from the anti -United States movements. In a dramatic escalation, his administration was canceled last week Harvard’s ability to register foreign students, a move that was later banned by a federal judge.
Masarro Ishi, Dean of the University of Osaka University’s High Medicine, described the influence of American universities as a “loss for all human.”
Japan aims to increase the number of foreign students to 400,000 during the next decade, from about 337,000 currently.
Jessica Turner, CEO of Quacquarelli Symonds, a London -based analytical company that classifies universities worldwide, said other leading universities around the world are trying to attract students unarmed by going to the United States.
She said that Germany, France and Ireland appear as especially attractive alternatives in Europe, while in the Asia Pacific region, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and the main mainland China is rising in the profile.
Switching schools
Chinese students were particularly targeted in the campaign of Mr. Trump, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, pledged “strongly” their visas.
More than 275,000 Chinese students have been registered in hundreds of American colleges, providing a major source of revenue for schools and a decisive pipeline of American technology companies.
International students – 54 % of them from India and China – contributed more than $ 50 billion to the US economy in 2023, according to the US Department of Trade.
Mr. Trump’s campaign comes in a decisive period in the international student request, as many young people are preparing to travel to the United States in August to find residence and stability before the start of the period.
Dai, a Chinese student based in Chengdu, had planned to go to the United States to complete her master but is seriously considering presenting an offer in Britain instead.
Various policies [by the U.S. government] She said, “It was a slap in my face, asking that it be identified only by her title for private reasons.” I am thinking of my mental health and I will really change schools. “
Tom Moon, Vice President of Consulting in Oxbridge applications, which help students in their university applications, said students from Britain and the European Union are now visiting progress to American universities.
He said that many international students currently registered with American universities were now contacting consultations to discuss transportation options to Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe.
According to a poll conducted by the consulting earlier this week, 54 % of its customers said they are now “less likely” to register at an American university than they were at the beginning of the year.
Universities in the United Kingdom, an organization that strengthens British institutions, said there is an increase in requests to British universities from potential students in the United States. However, he warned that it was too early to determine whether it is translated into more registered students.
The effects of reputation
Ella Rikits, a first -year -old at Harvard University from Canada, said that she is receiving a generous assistance package paid by donors at school and is concerned that she will not be able to bear other options if she was forced to transport.
She said: “While I was applying to schools, the only university throughout the Atlantic Ocean was Oxford …. However, I realized that I would not be able to withstand international tuition fees and there was no scholarship or sufficient financial aid.”
She said that if Harvard’s ability to register foreign students is canceled, she is likely to apply to the University of Toronto.
The QS Analysis Company said that the total visits of its online guide “Study in America” decreased by 17.6 % last year – with India’s interest fell alone by more than 50 %.
“The measuable effects on enrollment usually appear within six to 18 months. However, reputable effects are often much longer, especially when they play uncertainty in the visa and convert work rights into perceptions of risks for return.”
These risks can be reputable and depletion of the brain that followed, more harmful to American institutions more than the immediate economic blow than to leave students.
“If America turns these wonderful and talented students, they will find other places to work and study,” said Kalb Tumson, an American student at Harvard University, who lives with eight international scientists.
This story was reported by Reuters.
