Trump administration "hits" Harvard - Bans enrollment of foreign students at the university
President Donald Trump's administration stripped Harvard University of its right to enroll international students and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status. Trump is also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate the certification of Harvard University's Student and Visitor Program, which was in effect for the 2025-2026 school year, the department said in a statement.
Noem accused the university of “inciting violence, anti-Semitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party.” Harvard said the Trump administration’s move, which affects thousands of students, was illegal.
The decision marked a significant escalation of the Trump administration's campaign against the elite Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has emerged as one of Trump's most prominent institutional targets. The move came after Harvard refused to provide information Noem requested about some foreign student visa holders, the department said.
The university enrolled nearly 6,800 international students in the 2024-2025 academic year, reaching 27% of the total student population, according to university statistics.
In 2022, Chinese nationals were the largest group of foreign students with 1,016, university figures showed. They were followed by students from Canada, India, South Korea, Britain, Germany, Australia, Singapore and Japan.
"It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition fees to help supplement their billion-dollar endowments," Noem said in a statement.
Harvard called the government's action "illegal" and said it was "fully committed" to the education of international students. "This retaliatory action threatens our community and country, and undermines Harvard's academic and research mission," the university said in a statement.
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