Yup. While in college, a friend of mine who worked in one of the departments said it's well known that if the department needs more money, then "just admit more

Yup. While in college, a friend of mine who worked in one of the departments said it's well known that if the department needs more money, then "just admit more Chinese grad students." The foreign students pay more, and receive poorer service in both from the school, and often from the professors. This is of course by no means unique as the article says, Brown University almost went bankrupt in the 90s, so there was a program to target wealthy European families and admit their children to the school, in exchange for large donations and full tuition. Many of these schools talk a big game about valuing education, but there is a reason many of them are older than the most storied for profit companies, and the fact that Universities are private and non-profit protect them from being audited.