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Overseas Students

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 26 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will list in tabular form by each UK university the proportion of post-graduate students who are from (a) the UK, (b) the EEA and (c) the rest of the world; and what assessment he has made of trends in such figures over the last 10 years. (163680)

[holding answer 13 November 2007]: I have been asked to reply.

The available information is given in the table. Figures for 2006/07 will be available in January 2008.

Over the last 10 years, there has been significant growth in the overall number of students from all domiciles undertaking post-graduate studies in the UK. The trend has been for the proportion of post-graduate students from overseas to increase in relation to UK domiciled students. There has been a smaller increase in the proportion of post-graduate students from the European economic area (EEA).

Postgraduate enrolments at UK higher education institutions, by domicile1, 2005/06

Percentage

Higher education institution

Total

UK

EEA2 (excluding the UK)

Other overseas

English Institutions

454,435

68.4

9.0

22.7

Anglia Ruskin University

3,930

80.3

7.5

12.2

Aston University

2,410

55.6

11.9

32.5

Bath Spa University

2,300

97.7

1.2

1.2

Birkbeck College

3,540

87.0

5.0

8.0

Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies

440

19.4

11.9

68.7

Bishop Grosseteste College

515

99.4

0.6

0.0

Bournemouth University

2,575

45.5

10.9

43.6

Brunel University

5,000

51.9

17.8

30.3

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

565

78.9

3.9

17.2

Canterbury Christ Church University

3,210

93.7

2.2

4.1

Central School of Speech and Drama

370

78.5

8.1

13.4

City University

9,260

61.0

15.1

23.9

College of St. Mark and St. John

1,570

95.7

1.6

2.7

Conservatoire for Dance and Drama

50

64.0

22.0

14.0

Courtauld Institute of Art

255

53.5

15.6

30.9

Coventry University

2,835

58.2

11.2

30.6

Cranfield University

4,075

56.0

24.7

19.3

Cumbria Institute of the Arts

40

100.0

0.0

0.0

Dartington College of Arts

100

73.3

11.9

14.9

De Montfort University

3,670

81.5

5.1

13.4

Edge Hill University

4,785

98.7

1.0

0.3

Goldsmiths College

2,585

72.1

12.5

15.4

Harper Adams University College

95

69.1

8.2

22.7

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

4,570

55.7

19.8

24.5

Institute of Education

7,000

84.2

5.2

10.6

King's College London

7,005

69.6

12.6

17.9

Kingston University

4,670

75.3

7.1

17.7

Leeds College of Music

10

90.0

10.0

0.0

Leeds Metropolitan University

4,330

78.3

4.8

16.9

Liverpool Hope University

1,990

70.3

7.7

22.1

Liverpool John Moores University

4,180

77.4

5.8

16.8

London Business School

1,455

34.3

18.1

47.6

London Metropolitan University

7,235

59.9

11.4

28.7

London School of Economics and Political Science

4,950

22.3

26.8

50.8

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

975

44.4

14.7

41.0

London South Bank University

5,205

73.0

6.4

20.7

Loughborough University

5,715

55.6

8.2

36.2

Middlesex University

5,545

56.1

6.5

37.4

Newman College of Higher Education

365

95.1

4.9

0.0

Norwich School of Art and Design

95

95.9

3.1

1.0

Oxford Brookes University

5,015

74.0

6.9

19.2

Queen Mary and Westfield College

3,055

51.0

13.3

35.7

Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication

35

35.1

10.8

54.1

Roehampton University

1,725

75.9

10.7

13.3

Rose Bruford College

55

64.2

13.2

22.6

Royal Academy of Music

420

52.3

19.1

28.6

Royal Agricultural College

255

65.6

3.1

31.3

Royal College of Art

850

59.9

25.0

15.1

Royal College of Music

265

47.2

25.7

27.2

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

2,135

62.1

11.4

26.5

Royal Northern College of Music

210

49.0

16.7

34.3

Sheffield Hallam University

7,105

76.2

5.1

18.7

Southampton Solent University

755

68.2

5.3

26.5

St. George's Hospital Medical School

565

86.4

4.8

8.8

St. Martin's College

3,270

96.1

3.0

0.9

St. Mary's College

840

84.5

13.0

2.5

Staffordshire University

3,370

64.7

5.3

30.0

Thames Valley University

1,990

83.8

2.9

13.4

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth

25

100.0

0.0

0.0

The Institute of Cancer Research

235

64.8

15.0

20.2

The Manchester Metropolitan University

5,995

87.1

4.2

8.7

The Nottingham Trent University

5,895

84.0

4.4

11.6

The Open University

17,465

99.7

0.0

0.3

The Royal College of Nursing

185

97.8

0.5

1.6

The Royal Veterinary College

395

67.5

16.1

16.4

The School of Oriental and African Studies

2,095

44.8

18.1

37.1

The School of Pharmacy

625

79.4

7.5

13.1

The University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury

220

53.2

18.0

28.8

The University of Bath

5,025

56.7

13.1

30.2

The University of Birmingham

11,960

66.7

7.5

25.8

The University of Bolton

1,695

80.4

2.2

17.4

The University of Bradford

4,135

47.0

9.8

43.1

The University of Brighton

4,450

77.6

9.6

12.8

The University of Bristol

7,785

67.5

9.6

23.0

The University of Buckingham

195

33.3

8.7

57.9

The University of Cambridge

9,170

58.7

12.9

28.4

The University of Central Lancashire

4,175

77.5

4.4

18.1

The University of Chichester

1,615

92.4

5.5

2.1

The University of East Anglia

3,620

66.9

8.4

24.7

The University of East London

5,195

73.2

7.0

19.8

The University of Essex

2,900

38.9

19.8

41.3

The University of Exeter

4,620

61.7

10.7

27.6

The University of Greenwich

6,700

68.5

4.8

26.6

The University of Huddersfield

3,555

82.7

3.5

13.8

The University of Hull

4,125

61.6

8.1

30.2

The University of Keele

3,260

72.9

6.1

21.0

The University of Kent

4,525

74.8

8.8

16.4

The University of Lancaster

3,610

64.2

11.4

24.4

The University of Leeds

8,900

60.7

8.3

31.0

The University of Leicester

6,495

67.2

6.2

26.5

The University of Lincoln

1,565

77.3

7.3

15.3

The University of Liverpool

3,700

63.7

8.1

28.2

The University of Manchester

11,075

64.2

9.4

26.4

The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

5,410

53.4

11.0

35.6

The University of Northampton

1,455

75.3

1.6

23.1

The University of Northumbria at Newcastle

5,635

66.1

4.6

29.3

The University of Nottingham

7,945

56.4

10.0

33.6

The University of Oxford

7,970

44.0

15.6

40.4

The University of Plymouth

5,415

88.3

4.7

7.0

The University of Portsmouth

4,095

64.1

12.2

23.6

The University of Reading

4,025

66.6

11.3

22.1

The University of Salford

4,035

70.0

7.0

23.0

The University of Sheffield

7,300

60.2

8.6

31.2

The University of Southampton

7,145

64.7

11.4

23.8

The University of Sunderland

3,035

57.7

10.1

32.2

The University of Surrey

6,225

52.5

16.8

30.8

The University of Sussex

3,300

61.5

13.3

25.2

The University of Teesside

2,325

85.6

5.2

9.2

The University of Warwick

10,050

56.5

12.7

30.8

The University of Westminster

7,355

63.1

11.3

25.5

The University of Winchester

1,240

97.3

1.5

1.3

The University of Wolverhampton

4,310

74.6

3.7

21.6

The University of Worcester

1,440

96.3

1.3

2.4

The University of York

4,195

56.3

12.2

31.5

Trinity and All Saints College

350

93.1

3.2

3.7

Trinity Laban

245

64.5

19.6

15.9

University College Falmouth

205

86.5

6.3

7.2

University College London

9,650

58.8

16.2

25.0

University of Bedfordshire

1,735

42.7

10.2

47.0

University of Central England in Birmingham

4,090

84.5

2.7

12.8

University of Chester

2,845

93.3

3.4

3.3

University of Derby

2,515

88.1

3.8

8.1

University of Durham

5,295

64.2

8.2

27.6

University of Gloucestershire

1,680

88.6

3.3

8.1

University of Hertfordshire

4,340

63.9

3.8

32.3

University of London (Institutes and activities)

350

56.0

17.5

26.4

University of the Arts, London

2,250

59.2

15.4

25.4

University of the West of England, Bristol

5,475

85.2

4.9

9.9

Wimbledon School of Art

85

82.1

8.3

9.5

York St John University College

830

97.3

0.7

1.9

Welsh Institutions

25,275

70.5

7.7

21.8

Cardiff University

7,450

65.0

8.9

26.2

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

125

79.0

8.9

12.1

Swansea Institute of Higher Education

1,185

93.6

4.5

1.9

The North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education

435

74.7

7.1

18.2

The University of Wales, Lampeter

1,695

61.0

12.9

26.1

The University of Wales, Newport

1,850

89.0

1.8

9.1

Trinity College, Carmarthen

410

96.8

1.2

2.0

University of Glamorgan

2,925

71.5

6.8

21.7

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

2,330

60.9

2.6

36.5

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

2,570

67.1

13.7

19.2

University of Wales, Bangor

1,835

78.7

8.4

12.9

University of Wales, Swansea

2,470

68.8

6.8

24.4

Scottish Institutions

53,985

67.5

8.7

23.8

Bell College

150

100.0

0.0

0.0

Edinburgh College of Art

365

43.3

19.5

37.3

Glasgow Caledonian University

3,375

77.8

5.6

16.6

Glasgow School of Art

260

61.4

15.8

22.8

Heriot-Watt University

4,620

58.4

13.3

28.3

Napier University

3,165

66.7

8.9

24.4

Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

1,100

74.5

11.8

13.7

Scottish Agricultural College

75

79.2

14.3

6.5

The Robert Gordon University

3,975

53.4

7.4

39.2

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

120

58.2

19.7

22.1

The University of Aberdeen

3,660

67.7

8.3

23.9

The University of Dundee

5,535

67.1

6.4

26.5

The University of Edinburgh

6,585

63.4

13.0

23.6

The University of Glasgow

4,785

70.3

8.0

21.7

The University of Paisley

1,635

78.7

6.8

14.5

The University of St Andrews

1,885

44.8

14.8

40.4

The University of Stirling

2,030

66.1

7.3

26.6

The University of Strathclyde

9,765

79.5

5.6

14.9

UHI Millennium Institute

275

94.1

1.8

4.0

University of Abertay Dundee

635

37.9

7.7

54.4

Northern Irish Institutions

11,670

75.1

16.2

8.7

St. Mary's University College

120

97.5

2.5

0.0

Stranmillis University College

160

96.8

3.2

0.0

The Queen's University of Belfast

5,395

76.3

12.2

11.6

University of Ulster

5,995

73.1

20.4

6.5

1 Domicile is the student's permanent residence prior to starting his or her course.

2 European Economic Area. Figures include Switzerland.

Note:

Figures are on a standard registration population basis. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5, percentages to the nearest 0.1 per cent.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record