AITA for telling my daughter I cannot pay for her to study abroad?

I (54M) have four children. My three all studied abroad for university. They are all settled now and doing well for themselves.

My youngest is my daughter (17F). She is much younger than her brothers because there is a fairly big age gap. She will be applying for university next year.

She wants to study Computer Science and has always assumed I would sponsor her studies abroad just like I did for her brothers. Recently I told her that I will pay for her education, but only if she studies in India.

She feels this is unfair because I "gave her brothers opportunities" that I am denying her. My reasoning is that the world has changed a lot since my sons left India.

All three of them studied engineering at a time when there was a strong demand, and countries like Canada and the UK had comparatively easier immigration pathways. I won't pretend I sent them only for education. A major reason was that there was a realistic chance they could settle there permanently, get PR, and eventually citizenship. That was the long-term plan, and thankfully it worked out for them.

Today, I don't think that is a realistic expectation anymore. The Computer Science job market is much weaker than it was a few years ago, especially for fresh graduates. On top of that, countries like Canada and the UK have become much stricter about immigration. Getting PR or citizenship is far more difficult than it was when my sons went.

There is also the financial side. The cost of everything in India has increased significantly over the years, and I would like to retire soon. I also received a smaller retirement lump sum and pension than I had expected because I agreed to pay a sizeable amount of money to an official to ensure that my government job would be transferred to my nephew after I retired.

Because of all that, spending several crores on an overseas degree no longer makes financial sense if the main advantage of settling there is no longer likely. I would rather she study at a good university in India, where there are still excellent Computer Science programmes, and avoid taking such an expensive gamble.

She says I'm changing the rules just because she's the youngest and she has always been accadmically her class topper. I told her I'm changing them because circumstances have changed, not because she is a girl. If one of the others were 17 today, I would tell him exactly the same thing.

Now my daughter barely speaks to me and is very upset. She admits though that she does want to settle outside and claims she can still do it but I know the reality and loads have to leave.