With higher education funding cuts, some students, including from India, avoid U.S. colleges

Police officers detain a protester inside Trump Tower during a rally against the ICE detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon About two months ago, Sierra Moran started to panic. She had been accepted into graduate programs at Duke and Georgetown universities, but her professors at Louisiana State University warned her that federal funding cuts were hitting labs hard, and that research a