>There are no mechanisms where discriminatory pricing kicks in, and only the foreign students pay for the additional capacity. There is exactly such a mechanis

>There are no mechanisms where discriminatory pricing kicks in, and only the foreign students pay for the additional capacity. There is exactly such a mechanism. The foreign students pay more! I don't have the exact figures to crunch the numbers (and I doubt you do either), but it's pretty implausible to suggest that foreign students are somehow a loss maker for US universities. If foreign students were a net loss, then universities wouldn’t be so keen to admit them. And if they're profitable then they pay for their seats. The US university system is an incredible national asset. There are incalculable benefits to having the world's best universities attracting the best students from all over the world. That some Americans have managed to convince themselves that this is a bad thing is enough to turn my brain inside out.