Universities around the world seek to offer refuge for students affected by US President Donald Trump’s intervention on academic institutions, focused on the highest talent and a piece of billions of dollars in academic income in the United States.
Osaka University, one of the best rated in Japan, offers exceptions to tuition fees, research grants and assistance with travel measures for students and research workers in American institutions who want to transfer.
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Japanese Kyota University and University of Tokyo are also considering similar schemes, while Hong Kong has ordered its universities to attract the highest talent of the United States. Chinese University Xi’an Jiaotong referred to students at Harvard, marked in Trump’s intervention and promised “simplified” acceptance and “complex” support.
Trump’s administration accepted massive cuts of funding for academic research, limited visas for foreign students – especially students from China – and plans to raise taxes at elite schools.
Trump claims that the best American universities are the cradle of anti -American movements. In the dramatic escalation of his administration last week abolished Harvard’s ability to write foreign students, which is later blocked by a federal judge.
Masaru Ishii, Dean of the postgraduate faculty at the University of Osaka, described the impact on American universities as a “loss for all humanity”.
Japan aims to increase the number of foreign students to 400,000 in the next decade, ZV of approximately 337,000.
Jessica Turner, CEO of Quacquarelli Symonds, a London analytical company that ranks universities around the world, said other leading universities around the world are trying to attract students to be insecure to go to the United States.
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Germany, France and Ireland appear as particularly attractive alternatives in Europe, while in Asia-Pacific, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Maidal China, they are growing in profile.
Switching
Chinese students were particularly focused on Trump’s intervention, with US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Wednesday, who were committed to “aggressively” take action for their visas.
More than 275,000 Chinese students are enrolled in hundreds of US universities, which provides the main source of income for schools and a major talent pipeline for American technology companies.
International students – 54% of them from India and China – according to the US Department of Trade, contributed more than $ 50 billion to the US economy.
Trump’s intervention comes in a critical period in an international application for students, because many young people are preparing to travel to the US in August to find accommodation and settle before the deadline.
Dai, 25 years, a Chinese student based in Chengdu, planned to head to the US to complete his master, but now seriously considering taking an offer in Britain.
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“Different politicians (US government) were slapped in my face,” she said, asking only to be identified by surname for personal data protection. “I think about my mental health and it is possible that I really change schools.”
Students from Britain and the European Union are also hesitant to apply for American universities, said Tom Moon, representative of the OxBridge Applications advice, helping students in their university applications.
He said that many international students who have currently entered American universities are now contacting advice to discuss the possibilities of transfer to Canada, Great Britain and Europe.
According to the survey, consulting took place at the beginning of this week, 54% of its clients said that now “less likely” will apply to the American university than at the beginning of the year.
Within British universities from potential students in the US, there has been an increase in applications at the University of University, said the University of Charles University, an organization that promotes British institutions. However, it pointed out that it was too early to say whether it was reflected in more students who were attributed.
Reputation effects
Ella Rickets, an eighteen -year -old Harvard Harvard student, said she was getting a generous package of help paid by school donors and worried that he wouldn’t be able to afford other options if he was forced to convert.
“At the time I was applying for schools, she was the only university across the Atlantic I was considering, Oxford … but I realized that I would not be able to afford international teaching and there was insufficient scholarship or financial assistance,” she said.
If the ability of Harvard was abolished to enroll in foreign students, it would most likely apply to the University of Toronto, she said.
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The QS analytical company said that the overall visits to the “study in America” fell by 17.6% last year – with the interest of India itself by more than 50%.
“The measurable impact on registration usually occurs within six to 18 months.
This reputation risk and the following brain drain could be even more harmful to US institutions than the immediate economic intervention from the outgoing students.
“If America turns away these brilliant and talented students, they will find additional places for work and study,” said Caleb Thompson, a 20 -year -old US student at Harvard, who lives with eight international scientists.
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