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huh? Foreign students have to pay tuition just as everybody else, even worse, they don't get 'in-state' breaks, or federal loans, or any other help american s

• yummyfajitas 17y ago
  PhD students (the ones I was referring to) don't pay tuition and get stipends of about $20k/year. The real cost is about $30-50k/year. Even students who pay tuition are not paying the full cost of their education in most cases. College is highly subsidized and 'in-state' tuition breaks comprise only a portion of that subsidy. It's bad enough that we subsidize college. It's even more wasteful to funnel money to colleges as an alleged way to recruit high skill workers. It's simply not necessary; if we want high skill workers, all we need to do is pick a number and issue that many visas. We can probably even make it revenue positive by issuing visas by auction, rather than by queuing.