Trump Administration Bars Harvard University From Enrolling Foreign Students

The Trump Administration has barred Harvard University’s means to enroll worldwide college students, the NYT reported on Thursday.

The administration additionally mentioned that it will be doing in order an ongoing investigation into the college by the Department of Homeland Security. A letter has been despatched to the college by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

She additionally mentioned in an X submit, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus”, and mentioned that it is a “privilege, not a right” to have the ability to enrol international college students on the college. She additionally mentioned that the upper tuition charges from the international college students “helps pad their multibillion-dollar endowments”.

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.

It is a privilege, not a proper, for universities to enroll international college students and profit from their larger tuition funds… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025

However, within the letter despatched to Harvard University, it was talked about that, if Harvard needs the chance of regaining Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification earlier than the upcoming tutorial faculty 12 months again, they need to present the “data required” inside “72 hours”.

This transfer by the Trump administration will drive present college students to switch to different colleges or lose their authorized standing, the Department of Homeland Security mentioned on Thursday.

Harvard University has mentioned that the transfer is a retaliatory motion that threatens critical hurt to the college. “The authorities’s motion is illegal. We are absolutely dedicated to sustaining Harvard’s means to host worldwide college students and students, who hail from greater than 140 nations and enrich the University – and this nation – immeasurably”, the college mentioned in a press release.

In April, US President Donald Trump had known as Harvard a “joke” and mentioned it ought to lose its authorities analysis contracts after the distinguished college refused calls for that it settle for exterior political supervision.

“Harvard can now not be thought-about even an honest place of studying, and shouldn’t be thought-about on any checklist of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges,” Trump mentioned on his Truth Social platform.

He had threatened to ban the famed seat of studying from accepting international college students until it bowed to the necessities, as early as April.

Each 12 months, anyplace from 500-800 Indian college students and students examine at Harvard, in keeping with the official web site of the college. Currently, 788 college students from India are enrolled at Harvard University.