Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:

lid says...

Why on earth should the US taxpayer pay for the post-graduate
education of foreign students ?


1- They don't. Foreign students pay out of state rates.


None of the grad students in engineering and the "hard sciences"
here at Illinois, foreign or domestic, *pay* anything at all.
They all have fellowships and subsidized "assistantships" that
actually pay *them* a small pittance.

Now if those foreign students from India and China are coming
here to get graduate degrees in English Literature they may
actually have to *pay* something, but the vast majority of them
are sucking on Uncle Sugar's tit.

Even if you have a fellowship or an assistantship (working for slave
wages), you still pay tuition. The typical foreign graduate student I
knew when I was in grad school was subsidized by either his government
or his family or both.

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