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.

CHOOSING A UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Joe Wood 18 Feb 2020

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International students by university
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International students by university

This table shows the proportion of first-degree international students in each of the UK's universities. Use this data to help your decision-making along with our league tables, course information and university profiles.

Institution	% of International Students
Aberdeen	21.8%
Abertay	9.5%
Aberystwyth	12.7%
Anglia Ruskin	8.1%
Arts University Bournemouth	14.3%
Aston	8.0%
Bangor	10.9%
Bath	16.9%
Bath Spa	5.0%
Bedfordshire	10.9%
Birmingham	9.0%
Birmingham City	5.7%
Bishop Grosseteste	0.1%
Bolton	3.5%
Bournemouth	6.4%
Bradford	10.3%
Brighton	8.7%
Bristol	11.7%
Brunel	14.2%
Buckingham	22.5%
Bucks New	7.2%
Cambridge	11.6%
Canterbury Christ Church	3.4%
Cardiff	8.3%
Cardiff Metropolitan	8.4%
Central Lancashire	6.5%
Chester	3.1%
Chichester	2.6%
City, University of London	15.3%
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama	11.9%
Courtauld Institute of Art	8.3%
Coventry	22.7%
Cumbria	1.9%
De Montfort	10.1%
Derby	5.7%
Dundee	6.3%
Durham	14.3%
East Anglia	11.2%
East London	4.8%
Edge Hill	0.7%
Edinburgh	18.4%
Edinburgh Napier	11.1%
Essex	19.3%
Exeter	12.8%
Falmouth	11.3%
Glasgow	13.0%
Glasgow Caledonian	5.4%
Glasgow School of Art	19.9%
Gloucestershire	3.8%
Goldsmiths	11.9%
Greenwich	12.3%
Guildhall School of Music and Drama	16.2%
Harper Adams	1.9%
Heriot-Watt	10.7%
Hertfordshire	9.7%
Highlands and Islands	1.8%
Huddersfield	12.6%
Hull	8.5%
Imperial College London	24.0%
Keele	7.2%
Kent	14.6%
King's College London	18.4%
Kingston	9.6%
Lancaster	20.5%
Leeds	9.5%
Leeds Arts University	8.2%
Leeds Beckett	3.2%
Leeds Trinity University	0.9%
Leicester	11.1%
Lincoln	4.3%
Liverpool	18.9%
Liverpool Hope	1.7%
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts	21.3%
Liverpool John Moores	3.8%
London Metropolitan University	7.6%
London School of Economics	21.2%
London South Bank	4.7%
Loughborough	8.8%
Manchester	19.1%
Manchester Metropolitan	5.1%
Middlesex	13.1%
Newcastle	9.7%
Newman	0.3%
Northampton	8.2%
Northumbria	6.5%
Norwich University of the Arts	7.4%
Nottingham	11.4%
Nottingham Trent	6.3%
Oxford	8.9%
Oxford Brookes	9.5%
Plymouth	6.6%
Portsmouth	11.4%
Queen Margaret	11.2%
Queen Mary	15.8%
Queen's – Belfast	5.5%
Ravensbourne	10.0%
Reading	14.1%
Robert Gordon	10.2%
Roehampton	5.5%
Rose Bruford College	18.9%
Royal Academy of Music	19.4%
Royal Agricultural University	5.4%
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama	11.9%
Royal College of Music	20.4%
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	20.9%
Royal Holloway	17.6%
Royal Northern College of Music	15.1%
Royal Veterinary College	15.4%
Salford	4.8%
Sheffield	12.5%
Sheffield Hallam	3.2%
SOAS University of London	13.9%
Solent University	12.8%
South Wales	8.4%
Southampton	11.7%
St Andrews	27.4%
St George's, University of London	5.9%
St Mary's	3.5%
Staffordshire	1.8%
Stirling	7.4%
Strathclyde	6.7%
Suffolk	2.1%
Sunderland	13.7%
Surrey	18.0%
Sussex	17.8%
Swansea	11.4%
Teesside	3.0%
Trinity Laban	15.6%
Ulster	3.4%
University College London	19.6%
University for the Creative Arts	10.4%
University of the Arts London	34.0%
University of Wales Trinity Saint David	2.1%
Warwick	17.2%
West London	9.9%
West of England, Bristol	8.4%
West of Scotland	5.4%
Westminster	17.0%
Winchester	4.9%
Wolverhampton	2.9%
Worcester	4.4%
Wrexham Glyndŵr	4.2%
Writtle University College	5.7%
York	8.3%
York St John	3.4%

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Data sources

Based on data supplied by the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited (HESA), 2016–17. To comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Human Rights Acts 1998, all student numbers are rounded to the nearest five.

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