A new report released Monday shows that international student enrollment in the United States is down 17%, the most in years, following the implementation of President Donald Trump’s harsh anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric.

According to the Institute of International Education, the fall 2025 decline is the most international enrollment has fallen in a non-pandemic year since 2015. “The U.S. is no longer the central place that students aspire to come to,” Fanta Aw, CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, told NBC News.

The Trump-era brain drain is hurting the economy.

According to NAFSA, international students contributed $42.9 billion to the economy and supported over 355,000 jobs during the most recent academic year. But this was a decline from the previous academic ye

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