I came to the U.S. from Australia in the Fall of 1967.<\/p>\n
I spent the next two years at the Harvard Business School. I earned an MBA.<\/p>\n
My parents paid full fare. No loans. No scholarships.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t cheap.<\/p>\n
In the fall of 2007, my son also went to Harvard Business School to earn an MBA. His mother and I paid his tuition — full fare, no scholarships, no loans. He graduated on June 4, 2009, exactly 40 years after I did.<\/p>\n
If today were 1967, I would have seen what ICE was doing to foreign students. And I would have been too\u00a0 scared to come to the U.S. to study here.<\/p>\n
There are 44 colleges and universities in Boston. I’m guessing it’s one of Boston’s biggest businesses.<\/p>\n
I asked Google how “How much money does the U.S. get educating foreign students each year?<\/em>” It told me:<\/p>\n In the 2023-2024 academic year, international students at US colleges and universities contributed a record-breaking\u00a0$43.8 billion<\/mark>\u00a0to the US economy.\u00a0<\/span>This includes contributions through tuition, fees, and living expenses.\u00a0<\/span>The\u00a0NAFSA<\/a>\u00a0data also shows that this contributed to the support of over 378,000 jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As international students leave the U.S. in coming months, I’m guessing all the 378,000 people will move to the west to assemble automobiles in the administration’s new factories or work picking fruit and vegetables in a California newly emptied of foreign workers.<\/p>\n America would have lost $43.8 billion and then some.<\/p>\n Jensen Huang was born in Taiwan. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and later <\/span><\/span>a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.<\/span> He went on to found Nvidia.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here’s a more detailed breakdown:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Huang and his wife pledged $50 million in 2022 to support the creation of a supercomputing institute on campus, according to the university’s news release.\u00a0<\/span>They also previously donated $5 million for a cancer research lab.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Huangs donated $30 million to help establish the\u00a0Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center<\/a>\u00a0at Stanford, where Huang received his undergraduate and graduate degrees.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n