What happens when universities bring together students from all over the world? This episode explores how studying alongside international classmates influences native students’ friendships, relationships, attitudes toward migration, and decisions to live abroad, effects that persist decades later. Despite political concerns that foreign students may crowd out locals or harm their career prospects, the results show no negative impact on employment or earnings.

This episode is based on the paper "University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization" by Stanislav Avdeev.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.