Are green card holders considered international students?

<p>Are green card holders considered international students? Do international students have a lower chance of admission and obtaining funding?</p>

<p>International applicants have lower chances of being admitted and getting funded. I’m not sure about the visa status, but I think a green card holder is considered a domestic applicant.</p>

<p>Do green card holders have an “obvious” lower chance of getting admitted and funded? I say obvious, because we never know if an admission committee/professor might be biased towards non american citizens.</p>

<p>For all practical purposes, permanent residents and citizens are treated on par at most Universities. If this question is specific to graduate schools, there may be some defence related research which won’t be available to permanent residents in grad school but otherwise, there should be no issues. </p>

<p>Bias can be against citizens too, if there is such a thing as an admission bias. The bias can be against your undergrad school and your accomplishments before it gets to your visa status.</p>

<p>Green card holders are treated as both citizens and international students. They are treated as citizens for the purposes of assessing in-state tuition (so less funding required to support one than an international student). They are treated as international students when their past academic work was not in the US (meaning a TOEFL and transcript evaluations may still be required). It is not either or.</p>

<p>As far as chances of admission, in many fields (especially the sciences), there are more international PhD students than American PhD students so it is clear that the chances of admission are at least as high. This isn’t the case in all fields, but look at the student profiles of the PhD programs you are considering. The actual enrolled population tells you much more about a specific program than national statistics or generalizations.</p>

<p>In addition to what some folks have said here, it also seems to depend on the school and program right? Some departments give the same funding packages to international students while, for whatever reason, other departments find it more burdensome (financially, bureaucratically, and so on) to take on international students.</p>

<p>It just depends.</p>