Instead of our University system subsidising foreign students over American students, as they do today, put the education of American Students first and develop programs that ensure Americans are benefiting from STEM graduate programs. Reform the way American STEM graduate schools work to encourage American Students to participate in advanced sciences.
“As of the May 2017 report more than half of the international students in the United States — nearly 514,000 — were enrolled in STEM degree programs. When foreign governments are paying the cost of tuition and living stipends at U.S. universities (as they often do, since the costs are out of the range of most such students), they aren’t going to subsidize courses in American literature or gender studies, because there is a foreign governments quid pro quo involved: "We’ll pay, if you study in areas of interest and value to us.“ Thus, we continue to lose ground in efforts to promote homegrown STEM students who would be able to build American enterprise and hold clearances needed to work in the defense ecosystem.
Since the early 1990s, MIT & Harvard Physics / Science Department Deans have been reserving over 50% of their post graduate admittances for incoming Chinese students. – per past Cornell Physics Department Dean on key trends.
“China has mastered the science of sending their students to foreign universities to build their knowledge base in crucial STEM areas, who then head back to China to become foot soldiers in the battle for high-tech supremacy. And a key training ground for those students are America’s best colleges and universities.”
“In 2017, 62 percent of all international students in US colleges and universities were in science and engineering fields. Almost 70 percent of those were from either India or China.”
Chinese Student Growth Trends: Over 330 thousand students from China study in colleges in the United States - a third of all foreign students in the country - this is over a fivefold increase since 2000. In China, there are also lots of international high schools where students are aiming to get into top universities in the US. The big shift in undergraduate applications is so significant that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student admissions office now organizes three pre-arrival orientations in China to prepare incoming students. Children who were born under the one-child policy are now of college-education age and the increasing wealth that enables Chinese families to pay the high prices of US degrees is also beneficial for university budgets. Foreign students pay roughly the same tuition as out-of-state US citizens (meaning that the education of foreign students is often more profitable for Universities, though still subsidized by US tax payers who often have limited job prospects themselves).
“Growth in advanced science and engineering degrees shows the U.S. graduating the largest number of doctorate recipients of any individual country, but 37% were earned by temporary visa holders with as many as 25% of STEM graduates in the U.S. being Chinese nationals. As the U.S. continues to attempt progress in STEM, ongoing Chinese support and influence continues to demonstrate strength in building a workforce of the future, while American universities are major enablers of China’s economic and military rise.” - Report to Pres. Trump by the Interagency Task Force in Fulfillment of Executive Order 13806.
According to the Institute for International Education (IIE), during the 2017-2018 academic year, enrolled in US graduate schools there were:
363,341 Chinese students enrolled, an increase of 3.6 percent over the prior year.
China also had the highest numerical overstays (18,075)
12,783 Iranian students, an increase of 1.1 percent;
7,537 Pakistani students, an increase of 7.4 percent;
5,518 Russian students, an increase of 2 percent;
44,432 Saudi Arabian students, which actually reflected a decrease of 15.5 percent (despite the second highest numerical overstays);
726 Syrian students, a decrease of 12.2 percent, in part due to Syrian civil war
10,520 Turkish students, a slight decrease of .6 percent.
https://cis.org/Report/How-US-Foreign-Student-and-Exchange-Visitor-Policies-Undercut-National-Security
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/stem-education-crisis-future-work/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-so-many-chinese-students-come-to-the-u-s-1462123552
Chinese students increasingly return home after studying abroad](Chinese students increasingly return home after studying abroad