International enrollment at Wichita State is down. Here’s why.

International enrollment at Wichita State is down. Here’s why.

International enrollment has been cited as one of the largest reasons behind Wichita State’s budget crisis by university administration.  Wichita State has had the largest number of international students of any Kansas public university since 2022.  But now international enrollment is down, particularly in graduate programs.  According to data from WSU’s Office of Planning and Analysis’s Fall 2025 Census, graduate international enrollment is dow…