03-02-2025, 02:54 AM
The Trump administration has frozen, slashed, threatened, and otherwise obstructed the tens of billions of dollars in funding that universities receive from the government, and then found ways around the court orders that were meant to stop or delay such efforts. In the meantime, new proposals to raise the tax on endowment income could further eat away at annual budgets. And all of this is happening at just the time when graduate admissions are in progress.
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The administration has also called for tightened scrutiny on visas of all kinds, including student visas. This could further muddy grad-school yields by making some applicants unable to accept their offers of admissions or enroll.
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