Foreign students make up one in five of the school’s nearly 60,000 students. There are more than 6,000 Chinese students on campus, making up the largest group of foreign students. To the university, any move to decrease that enrollment could have an outsized impact on both the campus climate and the school’s finances. The school has long welcomed foreign students: in 2007, the school enrolled nearly 5,700 — which at the time was the most ever to attend a public university, according to Sun-Times reporting at the time. The global population has steadily increased since then and it remains second among all public universities, according to the Institute of International Education, a group that tracks foreign enrollment around the country.
Illinois taxpayers paying for foreign students to go to a university most of their own aren't good enough to attend!
