Biased media with fake news.  Buried below the headlines and introductory paragraphs we find: "some officials cautioned that a “Trump effect” is just one possible explanation for this year’s application figures."  The drop in graduate student applications at the second rate schools like PSU reflects the fact that the US is no longer the technology leader that it was.  Decades ago foreign students filled the graduate schools because the US was the best in the world and even second rank schools were better than what they could find in their own country.  Often foreign governments would foot their students bills so that technology and know-how would be brought back home.  Well guess what, the expertise was taken back home.  Now where US schools are more concerned with gender equality than new science or technology, there is little reason for foreign students to come here - especially to low-ranked schools like PSU and UO.