Restorationist Group

Naturally, those who could study abroad in the nineteenth century were no ordinary people. These diploma mills existed to fleece people, so their costs could hardly be low.

The tuition might appear cheaper on the surface, but all subsequent services came with fees. In the end, the actual amount spent was usually even higher than at legitimate universities.

Morse had undoubtedly been taken for a ride. Austria's legitimate universities had never lacked applicants and recruited at most within Germany. Who in their right mind would travel all the way to Mexico to recruit students?

Even during Maximilian I's reign, there had been no such treatment, let alone now. The key reason tuition for foreign students in Austria was so high was that the Ministry of Education provided no funding.

It was not that Franz failed to understand the importance of cultivating international students, but that this era was not suited to it. On one hand, the costs were too high; on the other, he had no desire to train competitors for himself.

Austria was not alone in this. The major colonial empires of Europe were all much the same, mostly admitting only European students. It was not that they were too foolish to see the benefits of educating international students, but simply that it was not worth it.

In the original timeline, the Americans trained international students in order to flip the table; Japan trained international students in order to...

At present, Austria merely liked admitting international students from Germany. On one hand, this was to cultivate pro-Austrian factions; more importantly, most of these people would ultimately remain in Austria.

This differential treatment was, in effect, also a way of buying people's hearts.

Though both were international students, passionate young men from Mexico like Morse would most likely return to