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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

My tuition (with all the fees) per semester in the mid-late 2000s was $1500.

There were zero foreign students

How does it happen that a college can survive on that rate then, but can't now on the ~3k tuition?

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I do believe the international students pay double the fees if I recall correctly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

More than double in many cases.

College can be 10-15k+ per semester and university can be as high as 60k or more per semester for international students.

But there was a time where there were few, if any, international students, and it wasn't an issue.

I understand there has been a decrease/hold on gov subsidies to colleges and unis, but I don't understand how what once was rare in foreign tuition, then was a cash cow, and is now limited (but not eliminated) is now responsible for the total collapse of some schools.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't either. I do know med schools are definitely held up by the giant fees the international medical students pay, so it'll be interesting to see what happens to them due to them being banned, aside from the Saudis whose government pay them to be here apparently and probably will always find a spot here. Apparently already 88 percent of med students are Canadian born so they say the change won't be much, but honestly I work in a hospital and it feels like almost all of the students at whatever level are international.

Really it would make more sense to me to fix the family doctor problem in Ontario to provide a bridging program for doctors who already live here but aren't able to practice because they don't qualify, a lot of skilled people being wasted that way, or having to do dumb shit like a psychiatrist I know who had to practice as a GP in rural Nova Scotia for five years before they'd let him be a psychiatrist here in Ontario. That's a waste of talent that already exists here that would be a win for everyone, rather than training a Canadian GP who will get burned out on the low pay and dogsbody work, and quit and go be a hospitalist.

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