https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
If you're from the global south America to a lot of people is the promised land, and having a degree from there puts you on a higher caste above the indigenous academia.
When my aunt got a degree in teaching from Ohio I thought "Wow, Ohio! Must've been a wonderful place!".
Come to Ohio! We’ve got corn and industrial wastelands!
Or Iowa! We've got corn and, uh... Yeah, just the corn. :corn-man-khrush:
It's like Iowa was built from already decaying material. It's so ugly.