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Should foreign students pay the full cost of their education in the USA?
Most colleges and universities in the USA that get the majority of their money from the federal and/or state governments. Even so-called private colleges, such as Harvard, exist largely on government grants. So if you are a US citizen born to US citizen parents and you go to university at age 18, your parents paid taxes to build and maintain the education system for 18 years prior to your entry.
Foreigners take advantage of the education infrastructure that US citizens have paid for. Shouldn't they be charged for the 18 years of taxes they didn't pay taxes to US governments as part of their tuition bill? Reciprocity (aka:Exchange student system) is not really a good option.
For those of you who think that we need foreign students because US citizens don't want to work hard enough to get math/science degrees, here is a tidbit of info that might effect your decision: The USA graduates 3X's as many math/science students every year as it provides jobs for. Thus, every year, we generate thousands more unemployed math and science experts (at every level, baccalaureate to PhD). There is a glut of mathmaticians and scientists in the USA, not a dearth, as the universities would like us to believe.
It is touching the way the foreigners and pro-foreign lobbyists on this website protect their bank accounts, touching I tell you! Touching!
That aside:
Anyone want to look into the massive administrative overhead on those government grants to the private universities?
Anyone want to consider the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt that most US students have from going to college that regardless of whatever Pell grants and McJob they get, they will never pay it off?
Anyone want to consider the "under-employment" figures for US scientists and mathematicians who can't get training or jobs in US labs and businesses because they don't speak Chinese or whichever of the worlds 200+ world languages is spoken in the laboratory where they would train for their chosen field?
Anyone want to consider the "under-employment" figures for US scientists and mathematicians who are well-trained, but still can't get jobs in their fields?
Anyone want to consi
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4 Answers
- IngridLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes. Certain Foreign Governments pay for the full tuition of their Citizens when studying abroad.
Educational planning is very poor in the USA. With all of the Universities we have, I find it amazing how
unprepared for future needs they are. They seem to deal with studies like seasonal fashions.
We have plenty of smart People, all we need is smart Teachers to take them under their wings.
However Elementary and High Schools are falling behind those of many other Countries. Actually in
Math and Science we rank a miserable 48th.
Early education is the foundation for future growth.
- AlexLv 79 years ago
I really don't know where to begin, because almost everything you've said is wrong.
"Most colleges and universities in the USA that get the majority of their money from the federal and/or state governments. Even so-called private colleges, such as Harvard, exist largely on government grants."
This is only true if you include research grants, where they're actually getting paid to do something. If you're just talking about money for undergraduate education, this is not at all true, even at public universities. The University of North Carolina gets $520M from the state government. They have $2432M in expenses. That's less than 25%. They got only $14M from non-research federal money. Harvard's financial reports have no mention of non-research government support.
"The USA graduates 3X's as many math/science students every year as it provides jobs for." - If this is the case, why are there chronic shortages of math/science teachers, nurses and doctors? 54% of engineering PhDs in the US go to foreign students who take their degree and knowledge back to their home country. So in a way, you're correct. We're graduating more than we're providing jobs for here. But that's because so many of them aren't interested in a job here. I've known no one who had any problems finding a job as an engineer with a BS, an MS, or a PhD. I'd be interested to see your sources for the thousands of unemployed math and science experts. Obviously there will always be unemployment, but most science fields have an unemployment rate below the average for all bachelor's degrees. The unemployment rate for people with a doctoral degree is less than 2% (and that includes people who have PhDs in non-science fields).
- Big MamLv 69 years ago
They should pay more than any other US citizen. Find the US citizen at every college that is paying the most, and every foreign student should have to pay 1 dollar more than that.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Yes they should !
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