The number of international students arrivals in the United States has been slipping drastically over the past few months. Amid an already slippery slope under the Donald Trump administration, August 2025 witnessed an all-time low slump after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Compared to where these figures stood last year, the number of foreign students coming to the country fell by 19%, according to the US Trade.gov data cited by the New York Times.

Although the August 2025 data is preliminary and excludes visitors coming from Mexico via land and visitors from Canada, it takes into account the new international student arrivals in the US along with the existing foreign students returning to the country.

International students arrivals in US – Decline in Indian students

With 70% of students

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