© 2026 WGCU News
News for all of Southwest Florida
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

International Students Studying In U.S. Ponder Status Under Trump

Archit Rastogi is a PdD student at UMass Amherst. (Lisa Quinones for NENC)
Archit Rastogi is a PdD student at UMass Amherst. (Lisa Quinones for NENC)

More than a million undergraduate and graduate students from overseas come to study in the U.S. every year, with visas in hand. Graduate students in particular are big business for colleges.

But as Jill Kaufman ( @JillK885NEPR) of New England Public Radio reports, President-elect Donald Trump’s many anti-immigration stances have brought uncertainty into the classroom.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Trusted by over 30,000 local subscribers

Local News, Right Sized for Your Morning

Quick briefs when you are busy, deeper explainers when it matters, delivered early morning and curated by WGCU editors.

  • Environment
  • Local politics
  • Health
  • And more

Free and local. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

More from WGCU