1986_05 The Daily Collegian May 1986

              Lower oil prices cause foreign students woes
(CPS) - The drop in world oil prices is
forcing students from oil-producing coun¬
tries to leave American campuses in droves,
according to various sources.
An even bigger migration home may
take place at the end of this semester if oil
prices don't rise soon, they added.
Students from OPEC (Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries) nations
a short lime ago comprised more than a
third of all the foreign students going to
college in the U.S., and represented an
important source of tuition revenue and
enrollment for many American colleges
But as the price OPEC countries charged
for their oil tumbled from S34 per barrel in
1983 to SI! per barrel in recent months*
the nations arc less willing to send stu¬
dents to the U.S.. where the students typi¬
cally had enrolled in engineering and bus-
The price slide, which began in 1983
fall, has made once-abundant scholarships
to American schools exceedingly hard for
'Undergraduate students from OPEC
eally suffering," said Jesse
Bautista, international student advisor at
the University of Texas-El Paso.
"If they can keep a 4.0 CPA, they're
okay. Otherwise, their governments are
saying, "forget it. come home.""
Graduate degrees from U.S. schools
remain in high demand, however.
And a recent flood of students from the
Orient has almost equalled the loss in
Middle Eastern and Latin American
undergrads.
But dreams of university growth based
on "predictions of foreign enrollment going
through the ceiling"are all but dead, said
This year, as in the past two years,
about three in 100 students in U.S. col¬
leges came from another country. The
biggest change is what part of the world
they're coming from, the institute said.
The "typical" foreign student — once
an Iranian preparing for a career in the oil
industry — nowisan East Asian studying
engineering.
Almost half of the 342,113 foreign stu¬
dents here in 1984-85 came from Taiwan,
Malaysia, South Korea, Japan or the
People's Republic of China.
56,580 Middle Eastern students, a decrease
of 6.7 percent, the HE reports.    _
Latin American and Caribbean nations
sent 48.500, a drop of 7.2 percent from ihe
1983-84 school year.
"China may be the new boom country
in the next few years, just like Iran was in
the '70s," predicted Brad Spencer,
I Student Admis-
of Southern Cali-
Though lew, it any. new Iranian stu¬
dents are arriving in the United States,
they still are Ihe fourth largest foreign stu¬
dent population here, the report said.
Most Iranian students are now gradu¬
ate students, said Margie Kidd of UT-
Many may simply be prolonging their
education as long as possible- to avoid
returning home.
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for
my other U.S. campus
more foreign students will return home
next semester, said Columbia's Tudisco.
Such exoduses have happened before,
said Mike Dean, director of the Foreign
Student Office at the University of Wisonsin-
Madison.
"1 remember two! three years ago when
Venezuelan students were suddenly out of
money." he recalled. "Some students were
encouraged to finish soon. Others were
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