The academic industrial complex has since moved on to focusing on wealthy international students, a group that is even less cost sensitive than an American student with a blank check.
I really noticed this when reading the page for a grad school at a nearby university, maybe one of the students on any of the research teams in the department were American.
Were they not American or did they not have traditionally white Anglo-Saxon names?
Both, I believe most of them were from China.
I think this is more likely caused by grad school being a poor investment for the average American but a great investment for a foreign student looking to get a job in America.
Yeah this was my initial thought as well. In fairness, the program was also somewhat niche.