Foreign students contribute $22.7 billion to the economy. Indiana charges in-state students $10,034 for tuition and non-residents $31,484. Its a no-brainer as far as the Universities are concerned. Capitalism at its best. At least the local students have the opportunity to play football, basketball and party. /s

Now if we can get rid of the 60´s hippy leftist profs and get only free market supporters and true historians to get us and the world back on track.

Rural Maine high schools are also courting Asian students who pay handsome tuitions.

All driving the costs for local students and their families up dramatically - well, that is for those who still pay for their own education.

As far as ´capitalism at it´s best´, it´s never good when governments are involved and paying the bills. It PERVERTS capitalism.

Good idea. Fill the engineering grad schools with Chinese and Indian students.
Who needs engineers, anyway?

I had alot of years of experience dealing with foreign students, and they can be trouble - they claim to have financial guarantees when they apply, but when they arrive, they put great pressures on the school for financial support. And, often, the school caves in.
When I was an administrator, I had one nigerian student with a wife and eight children, sitting outside my office every morning, waiting for me in order to beg for more money. I became cynical after a time.

I teach at Indiana University´s main campus in Bloomington. We are simply overwhelmed by the number of international, specifically Asian (China, Korea) students. Too many are deficient in English-language skills, too many choose not to assimilate into campus culture (so why are they here), too many come from wealthy families back home and come just to party, and, worst of all, they are squeezing out local Indiana kids out of the chance to enroll at their state university at a reasonable, in-state price. I have spoken to our President McRobbie (native Aussie) about this, and he is deaf to the interests of our taxpayers. Outreach to Asia is important----IU has historically been active in this area---but our chartered mission is suffering. The main campus is identified as "IU-B", with "B" meaning, "Bloomington". Nowadays, IUB stands for, IU-Beijing.
Lest any resident trolls accuse me of racism, I would say, #1, I work daily with our Asian students to assist them in maximizing their experience here, and #2, stuff it, you liberal bigots and hypocrites.

´´Good idea. Fill the engineering grad schools with Chinese and Indian students.
Who needs engineers, anyway? ´´

Good point, #5. Yesterday, posted article that China is moving way forward with getting their people to the Moon by 2020. With our stolen technology, it only seems wise that we supply the education to use it./S

In the middle of a major economic slowdown, the dRATS want to concede our engineering slots to other countries, then complain when companies and jobs move there?

Now why would foreign students be willing to pay $35,000/year to go to school here when they can go to school in some other country for $2,000-$10,000? Because they get to stay here afterwards and join the illegal alien workforce.

When a foreign student comes here, he or she is supposed to pay the full out of state tuition rate to attend public colleges. But once here, when the foreign student violates his or her student status, he or she then becomes an illegal alien and is entitled in many places to only pay the much lower in-state tuition rate. Since the Obama crew will not deport illegal aliens who are attending school in the USA, why should not more and more foreign students seek out that loophole?