Harvard’s Foreign Enrollment Hits Record Despite Trump Feud

Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Photographer: Sophie Park/Bloomberg

Harvard University enrolled a record number of international students in the current academic year, even as the Trump administration sought repeatedly to curb student visas and funding for the Ivy League school.

The share of foreign students enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 2025 rose slightly to 28%, or 6,749 students, according to data published Friday by the university. That’s the most since at least 2002, according to Harvard data.