> he and others suspect the cause is President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric during the campaign and his election,
But then they say things that counter the title
> engineering applications overall are up 3%
and then offer a different more logical theory that can explain it
> international students at public universities pay tuition rates that are much higher than for in-state students.
I wounder when applications have to be sent in, because Trumps temporary ban on 7 countries only happened in January. Is there enough data from then until now to make any sort of correlation between the ban and the amount of applicants? During the campaign he was given an estimate of 0.1% chance of winning. Also, the article wrote that in a school that specifies in oil, only 9% of the foreign applicants are from those Arab countries.
As someone not living in the US, planing on studying for a masters degree, I barely even considered the US. Only the top schools offer funding that makes tuition be next to nothing. Other than those, the unrealistic costs and other issues that have been around with the US for more than one month make studying in Europe much more appealing.