By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 00:15 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 00:20 GMT, 4 March 2019
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A vice-chancellor from one of Australia's most prestigious universities has called for fewer international students to be accepted.
Education is Australia's third biggest export, and is worth more than $30billion a year to the economy with almost 900,000 foreigners studying in Australia last year.
Universities make money from teaching more students, and fee-paying overseas students have been lucrative for the higher education sector.
A Nobel-prize winning vice-chancellor from one of Australia's most prestigious universities has called for fewer international students to be accepted (Chinese students at ANU pictured)
Australian National University vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt, who won a Nobel prize in physics in 2011, said there was a danger in accepting too many international students.
'Yes, international students are great but there is a limit to how many we can take and we must be getting close to that,' the Canberra-based academic told The Australian Financial Review newspaper.
'We are going to have to be selective.'
Professor Schmidt, an American-born astrophysicist,
