Dozens of universities across the US risk losing an estimated $1bn in collective tuition fees from new international students unwilling or unable to study in the country as a result of actions by Donald Trump’s administration.
Tougher scrutiny of applicants, visas processing delays and immigration detentions on campuses and at the border are striking fear among both students and university administrators, which have increasingly looked abroad in recent years to fill places and generate income.
FT analysis of data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows 162 institutions with at least 1,000 students from urban research universities to small liberal arts colleges in the US heartlands are particularly vulnerable, given that more than 15 per cent of their student populations are from abroad.