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Ironman92

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May 4, 2026 9:59 PM

College graduations are in full swing right now.


Near me in southern Ohio I have little schools like Rio Grande and Shawnee St….like 95+ % American.  Ohio University I’m sure far more diversified.


I attended Pitt’s and maybe 1800 announced grads and I’m guessing 65+% foreign. Is this typical at larger universities? Maybe more so on the eastern coast side?


Is this a thing? A nothing burger? Americans going to college less? Foreign families in first or 2nd generation getting more and more higher end degrees? Or has this been this way for a long time and I’m just a southern Ohio hick?

Automatik

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16,926 posts
May 5, 2026 12:57 PM

65% seems high, but I think it's been this way for a while.


OSU is 10% foreign students per Google. I recall a lot of foreign students, back in the late 2000s.


Also, yes still a hick. :) 


CenterBHSFan

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11,476 posts
May 5, 2026 1:15 PM

So, I found this to be interesting. The landscape of this has changed a lot. And because it's been so long since I attended a 4 year, I was curious. 

I think it's just, to put it simply, extra incentives and outreach for foreign students.  Adding to that, a general unwillingness or avoidance of US students of the mountainous debt that looms without the extra outreach.




Or maybe I just googled the wrong keywords, I don't know lol