evidence: - Economic Impact: International students contributed $40 billion to the U.S. economy and supported over 368,000 jobs during the 2022-2023 academic year. [...] Contributions of International Students in the U.S. Having so many international students on U.S. college campuses has an immediate economic impact. For one, international students usually pay higher tuition than domestic students in public universities because they do not qualify for state residency tuition breaks (private schools generally do not charge different tuition fees for U.S. and foreign-born students, though tuition at private institutions is generally higher than public colleges and universities). They contributed $40 billion to the U.S. economy and supported 368,333 jobs during the 2022-2023 academic year.