{"id":182496,"date":"2025-10-13T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=182496"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:56","slug":"cap-on-international-students-bad-for-the-economy-say-universities-in-randstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/10\/13\/cap-on-international-students-bad-for-the-economy-say-universities-in-randstad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap on international students bad for the economy, say universities in the Randstad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands could lose several billion euros if universities in the Randstad are forced to significantly reduce the number of international students they admit. That is what five universities are warning in the run-up to the elections.<\/p>\n

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What would happen if three-quarters of international bachelor\u2019s students stayed away from the universities of Rotterdam, Leiden, Utrecht and the two universities in Amsterdam? And if they also stayed away from the master\u2019s programmes? And did not go on to work here?<\/p>\n

These five universities in the Randstad asked the economic research institute SEO to calculate the impact. It would cost the Dutch economy roughly four to five billion euros, out of a total size of more than a thousand billion.<\/p>\n\n\t

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