Trump is forcing Harvard’s 6,800 foreign students to transfer right now or lose their legal status, dealing a potentially irreversible hit to U.S. attractiveness as a higher education destination

A shot of Harvard's Dunster House and the Charles River in Boston
Dunster House across the Charles River on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, May 5, 2025.
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