The Trump administration’s changing visa policies caused a sharp drop in international applications to Columbia University and contributed to the university pausing admissions to one of its journalism programs, four people familiar with the matter said.
\n\nThe journalism school announced on Thursday it was pausing admissions to its Master of Arts offering to conduct a “critical evaluation,” without giving further details about the reasons.
\n\nJelani Cobb, the journalism school’s dean, said admissions to its Master of Arts program would pause for one year while the school reworked a degree created in 2005, when the “journalism marketplace looked different.”
\n\n“The dynamics of visas and all those other kinds of things were part of the consideration,” Cobb told Reuters. Additionally, the department needs time to think through changes to the program, he added.
\n\nThe connection between the admissions pause and U.S. visa policies has not been previously reported, nor has the length of the admissions pause.
\n\nThe drop in international applications shows how uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s visa policies is affecting one of the preeminent U.S. journalism institutions, which also administers the profession’s highest U.S. honor, the Pulitzer Prize. The people did not disclose the exact size of the drop in…
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