University of B.C. reopens application windows for U.S. grad students

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 13, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The University of B.C. (UBC) is reopening its exertion windows for U.S. students who mightiness privation to determination northbound arsenic President Donald Trump's medication threatens American colleges and universities with backing cuts.

UBC provost Gage Averill says the assemblage has seen a 27 per cent summation successful U.S. applications for postgraduate schoolhouse since the past world year.

According to the website for UBC's Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, select postgraduate programs volition re-open their applications from April 14 to 18 for U.S. citizens to beryllium considered for September 2025 oregon January 2026 entry.

"We're reasoning we're going to get much students who are having to marque changes successful their plans, whether it's due to the fact that their large has go hard to prosecute [or] their visa presumption is questionable," Averill said.

The involvement comes amid tensions successful the U.S. betwixt the Trump medication and post-secondary institutions. 

The Trump medication has frozen much than $1 cardinal US successful national backing for Cornell University and astir $790 cardinal US for Northwestern University while the authorities investigates alleged civilian rights violations astatine the schools, according to the White House.

It's portion of a broader propulsion of utilizing payer dollars to unit large world institutions to comply with Trump's governmental docket and to power field policy.

The White House late connected Tuesday confirmed to The Associated Press that determination is simply a clasp connected the universities' funding, but offered nary further details connected what that meant oregon what grants were affected.

The Republican medication besides axed $400 cardinal US successful backing for Columbia University, citing concerns implicit however it handled pro-Palestinian protests.

Carrie Simonelli of Rhode Island says her girl is looking astatine Canadian universities specified arsenic McGill and UBC because she has an involvement in gender studies, an country of study that may not acceptable successful with the current U.S. governmental climate. 

"I privation her to beryllium determination wherever she's escaped to marque her ain choices, and not determination wherever immoderate programs are favoured much implicit others," Simonelli said. 

Derrick Anderson of the American Council connected Education, which represents higher acquisition successful Washington, says determination are tremendous opportunities astatine U.S. universities, but there are concerns that American students are looking to survey overseas retired of "a nonaccomplishment of spot and confidence."

"I interest astir radical viewing planetary opportunities arsenic a solution to what they mightiness presumption arsenic a sub-optimal acquisition they mightiness person present successful the United States," Anderson said.

"I inactive consciousness similar the worth proposition of an American assemblage acquisition is unparalleled."