Many public universities subsidize cheap in-state tuition by recruiting international students who pay the full sticker price. The Trump administration’s crackdown could cause financial trouble for those institutions.
Universities have long issued bonds to raise money, but the amount being issued has nearly doubled in recent years —and is increasing as government funding is paused.
Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.