Harvard University isn’t considering opening a foreign campus to counteract President Donald Trump’s push to block the enrollment of international students, despite an invitation from a top German culture official.

President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.

Financial repercussions of blocking foreign students and tuition would be felt by hundreds of colleges and the state economies they support US President Donald Trump's proclamation last week that he would bar Harvard University from enrolling new international students put the spotlight back on an unprecedented stand-off between the White House and America's pre-eminent university.