The recent measures taken by US President Trump have caught the world of academia off guard, especially international students.

Harvard is the wealthiest US university with an endowment valued at $53.2 billion in 2024

US law requires universities to report donations from foreign sources exceeding $250,000 in a year.

Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday he was mulling whether to seek to end Harvard's tax-exempt status

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism

Trump has aggressively targeted prestigious universities that saw bitter protests sparked by Israel's attack on Gaza