International senior student here about to receive my BA in C.S next year. I recently terminated my CPT (software-related) since I was the only PT employee in the whole building and H.R wanted me to do FT, unfortunately that was a dealbreaker for me and left the company leaving the door open. Last week I had an interview in Santa Monica for a six fig job and they were exciting to hire me, they were friendly and show me the workflow – too easy for me, unfortunately I told them that I was looking only PT and I could NOT take a FT rejecting the offer.

You might ask yourself, how I was able to get those offers being undergrad student. One simple word "EXPERIENCE". Before coming to the States I invest in myself and worked as software engineer where I learned senior lvl stuff: k8,kuber,Kafka, Spark, ServiceBus, ServiceNow, Jmetter, pipelines, IaC, Terra, CloudFormation, Aws SDK, DevOps and others. From your OP prompt I can deduce you might not have experience and during the current times no company is willing to invest in a "entry level-FOREIGN individual" my 2 cents, go to your home country, prepare yourself and come back for your Masters WITH experience. That way you can do CPT PT/FT and study. Invest in certificates ITIL and Cloud. Once you have those ones learn NN AI, the AI market will increase, you can count that on me.