New York: Amid already falling numbers, the US witnessed another significant drop in international student arrivals in the country in August 2025.
The number of international student arrivals in the US 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.
With 70% of students arriving from Asia, making for the largest group of visitors, the continent brought in a significantly lower number of students to the US in August. With Asian student arrivals falling by 24% that month, those coming from India fell by an additional 44% amid a continuing slump.
As per the report, nearly one in three international students in the country is Indian. Meanwhile, about one in five are from China.
On the other hand, Chinese arrivals in the US in August fell by 12%, figures of those coming from South Korea slipped by 11%, compared to yesteryear numbers.
