Trump Administration Bars Harvard University From Enrolling Foreign Students

The Trump Administration has barred Harvard College’s skill to enroll worldwide college students, the NYT reported on Thursday.

The administration additionally stated that it could be doing in order an ongoing investigation into the college by the Division of Homeland Safety. A letter has been despatched to the college by Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem.

She additionally stated in an X put up, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese language Communist Social gathering on its campus”, and stated that it is a “privilege, not a proper” to have the ability to enrol overseas college students on the college. She additionally stated that the upper tuition charges from the overseas college students “helps pad their multibillion-dollar endowments”.

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese language Communist Social gathering on its campus.

It’s a privilege, not a proper, for universities to enroll overseas college students and profit from their larger tuition funds… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025

Nevertheless, within the letter despatched to Harvard College, it was talked about that, if Harvard desires the chance of regaining Pupil and Alternate Customer Program certification earlier than the upcoming educational faculty 12 months again, they need to present the “data required” inside “72 hours”.

This transfer by the Trump administration will power current college students to switch to different faculties or lose their authorized standing, the Division of Homeland Safety stated on Thursday.

Harvard College has stated that the transfer is a retaliatory motion that threatens severe hurt to the college. “The federal government’s motion is illegal. We’re absolutely dedicated to sustaining Harvard’s skill to host worldwide college students and students, who hail from greater than 140 nations and enrich the College – and this nation – immeasurably”, the college stated in a press release.

In April, US President Donald Trump had referred to as Harvard a “joke” and stated it ought to lose its authorities analysis contracts after the distinguished college refused calls for that it settle for exterior political supervision.

“Harvard can not be thought-about even a good place of studying, and shouldn’t be thought-about on any listing of the World’s Nice Universities or Schools,” Trump stated on his Reality Social platform.

He had threatened to ban the famed seat of studying from accepting overseas college students except it bowed to the necessities, as early as April.

Every year, wherever from 500-800 Indian college students and students examine at Harvard, in line with the official web site of the college. At the moment, 788 college students from India are enrolled at Harvard College.