# How much does the U.S. government spend educating foreign graduate students?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 18, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-the-u-s-government-spend-educating-foreign-graduate-students/725547 "2015-07-18T21:07:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-does-the-u-s-government-spend-educating-foreign-graduate-students/725547/21 "2015-07-20T16:52:17Z")

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> [@Ruken](#):
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> They are not identified in the applications, but the schools must keep track of exactly how the money is spent to avoid having to give money back. Or in the worst cases, people getting locked up because they thought “the government doesn’t usually consider the details of how the grant is administered to be its business.”
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> The linked NSF survey queries primary funding source (e.g. RA, fellowship, etc.) and nationality. So the information is out there. Just not in NSF’s published survey results.

I was supporting **even sven** ’s point that grants are not handed out based on grad student nationality. I’m sure they collect the data. As for your larger point, I get lots of resumes from new PhDs in engineering, and 95% I’d say have gone to a foreign university for their BS degree. However I also get resumes from one university’s for pay MS program and the same ratio holds.

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