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The article, as you say, mentions international graduate students. Most of these are probably funded by grants or the university itself (as is the case for most
by hypersoar 10y ago
The article, as you say, mentions international graduate students. Most of these are probably funded by grants or the university itself (as is the case for most STEM graduate students in the US). So I doubt MIT - or any university - is making money off them.
Undergraduates, however, are a different matter.
- tnecniv 10y agoThe university gets some income from graduate labor. Grad students write papers about work their PI gets funding from the NSF/whoever for. PIs then write a new grant awarded based on their proposal and prior work. The university then takes some percentage of the grant off the top. How that compares to expenditures needed to pay for the education of PhD students by the school, I do not know.
- tonmoy 10y agoBut that does not differentiate between US and non-US students at all. The original argument was that non-US students generate more revenue for the schools.
- lkowalcz 10y agoThere is a huge difference in how universities treat their Masters vs. PhD students. Indeed, universities are not making loads of money off international PhD students (most receive free tuition, a stipend, etc). However, international Masters students are cash cows for most universities (most pay full price -- or someone does for them).
- zzrg 10y agoI attended MIT for undergrad as well as master's. Most master's students I knew did not pay tuition (it was typically covered by their lab or through being a teaching assistant). On balance I wouldn't describe MIT master's students as "cash cows" for the university.