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International students at UK universities

Where do international students study in the UK? Our data shows the percentage of international students at each UK university.

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  1. International students by UK university

  2. Data sources

International students by UK university

This table shows the percentage of full-time international students taking a first degree in 2021/22 at CUG league table universities. Use this data to help your decision-making along with our league tablescourse information and university profiles.

Institution % of International Students
Aberdeen 22.8%
Abertay 9.6%
Aberystwyth 16.5%
AECC University College 35.6%
Anglia Ruskin 10.8%
Arts University Bournemouth 14.3%
Arts University Plymouth 3.1%
Aston 6.9%
Bangor 14.8%
Bath 21.2%
Bath Spa 3%
Bedfordshire 21.9%
Birmingham 18.6%
Birmingham City 8%
Bishop Grosseteste 1.7%
Bolton 8.2%
Bournemouth 6%
Bradford 12.4%
Brighton 11.7%
Bristol 19.7%
Brunel 25.4%
Buckingham 46.2%
Buckinghamshire New 6.5%
Cambridge 21.2%
Canterbury Christ Church 1.8%
Cardiff 11.5%
Cardiff Metropolitan 6%
Central Lancashire 17.1%
Chester 6.7%
Chichester 3.7%
City 27.8%
Courtauld Institute of Art 23.6%
Coventry 34.6%
Cumbria 2.7%
De Montfort 22.7%
Derby 9.5%
Dundee 14.4%
Durham 22.8%
East Anglia (UEA) 11.6%
East London 11.7%
Edge Hill 0.8%
Edinburgh 33%
Edinburgh Napier 10.3%
Essex 26.2%
Exeter 17.3%
Falmouth 7.3%
Glasgow 20.8%
Glasgow Caledonian 5.1%
Glasgow School of Art 21.7%
Gloucestershire 3.9%
Goldsmiths 23.3%
Greenwich 21.5%
Guildhall School of Music and Drama 25.7%
Harper Adams 5.6%
Hartpury 7.1%
Heriot-Watt 17.8%
Hertfordshire 21%
Highlands and Islands 3.9%
Huddersfield 13.8%
Hull 14.5%
Imperial College London 47.2%
Keele 6.4%
Kent 13.9%
King's College London 39.1%
Kingston 12.8%
LAMDA 17.4%
Lancaster 27%
Leeds 19.3%
Leeds Arts University 8.5%
Leeds Beckett 5.6%
Leeds Trinity 0.3%
Leicester 16.2%
Lincoln 4.4%
Liverpool 19.1%
Liverpool Hope 4.1%
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts 22.8%
Liverpool John Moores 4.5%
London Metropolitan 7.3%
London School of Economics 51.3%
London South Bank 12.5%
Loughborough 12.4%
Manchester 32.4%
Manchester Metropolitan 5%
Middlesex 19.7%
Newcastle 13.5%
Newman 0.3%
Northampton 11.7%
Northumbria 10.8%
Norwich University of the Arts 6.7%
Nottingham 14.2%
Nottingham Trent 8.8%
Oxford 19.9%
Oxford Brookes 12.8%
Plymouth 10.7%
Plymouth Marjon 0.7%
Portsmouth 15.8%
Queen Margaret 17.7%
Queen Mary, University of London 22%
Queen's, Belfast 14.1%
Reading 19%
Robert Gordon 11.8%
Roehampton 17%
Rose Bruford 11.1%
Royal Academy of Music 45%
Royal Agricultural University 8.9%
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 18%
Royal College of Music 47.4%
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 25.6%
Royal Holloway 17.3%
Royal Northern College of Music 24.4%
Royal Veterinary College 34.9%
Salford 6.5%
Sheffield 24.6%
Sheffield Hallam 3.4%
SOAS, University of London 23.8%
Solent 18.3%
South Wales 12.9%
Southampton 19.3%
St Andrews 40.4%
St George's, University of London 6.2%
St Mary's, Twickenham 12.7%
Staffordshire 2.8%
Stirling 17.5%
Strathclyde 9.2%
Suffolk 9.7%
Sunderland 17.2%
Surrey 16.9%
Sussex 25.2%
Swansea 12.8%
Teesside 5.9%
Trinity Laban 25.5%
Trinity Saint David 3.9%
Ulster 6.5%
University College London 52.6%
University College of Osteopathy 9.6%
University for the Creative Arts 15.9%
University of the Arts, London 47.4%
Warwick 29.8%
West London 16.8%
West of England, Bristol 14.8%
West of Scotland 6.1%
Westminster 22.6%
Winchester 5.4%
Wolverhampton 5.4%
Worcester 8.6%
Wrexham Glyndwr 4.1%
Writtle University College 6.1%
York 13.3%
York St John 4.8%
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Data sources

Based on data supplied by the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited (HESA), published in January 2023.

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