By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
The “Trump effect” could smack American colleges and universities to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars in tuition and fees if international student enrollment drops by only 5 percent. That’s the conclusion of researcher Rahul Choudaha, who leads DrEducation, a U.S.-based firm that monitors international student trends. Choudaha said the president’s “anti-immigrant rhetoric” is “colliding with the economic challenges in the ‘source’ countries to create a perfect storm for international student enrollment.” Of course, the travel ban imposed by Trump affects six Muslim-majority countries, which in the near past have sent about 20,000 students, said Choudaha. But the “trickle-down effect on other Muslim-majority countries” is still an unknown, he added, as is the impact on travel from other countries. “The decline for the 2017-2018 academic year will hit the institutions hardest that have benefited from the rising tide of enrollments particularly from China, India and Saudi Arabia,” he said.
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