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I think this is perfectly fine as long as foreign students are paying full non-resident tuition when at publicly-funded institutions. Private schools may do as they wish of course, but it's not a responsibility of US citizens to pick up the cost to educate foreign nationals.

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In the sciences, almost everyone - domestic or international is paid a stipend. It's more accurate to think of PhDs are paid researchers rather than students. Taking classes is not the point of doing a PhD so it's not education in the sense that doing a Bachelors or Masters is education

For Masters, everyone pays tuition - unless one can find a research assistanship where the professor is willing to fund part or all of the cost, scholarship, etc.

They aren't. Most or at least some of tuition is waived. Students get a stipend, since you are often prohibited from taking employment. If they take employment, it is often paid by grant, and related to research in the field of study. Some get TA work. As I said in another comment ITT, American students won't work for the meager stipends that most schools can offer.

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