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You're talking about undergrads. PhD foreign students are paid by the university, not payers into budgets. So it's actually the opposite effect.

The recession was 6+ years ago, perfect timing for those undergrads to become grad/phd students. I think his point still stands.

I don't think that is true. Some are but most foreign PhD students are paying their own way or being paid externally.

>s it a surprise when more of your graduates are foreign students?

This isn't a case of merely an increase in foreign student PhD's. It's that the degrees are primarily foreign students, even though as your link shows, they are a minority of students on campus.

Side note, I love that they decided to show the distance scale on the map.

Yes, it is opposite in grad school. Recessions bring U.S. students. In a booming economy, qualified students take high-paying jobs. In a recession, they ride it out in grad school. (I only have anecdotal evidence for this claim.)