The number of foreign students is set to increase by almost 50 per cent in five years, the university admissions service predicts today.
It says there is renewed interest in living in the UK, since Covid restrictions lifted, with the NHS and English language a particular draw.
International students are stereotypically drawn to business and law degrees but new analysis by Ucas shows that statistics, materials science and artificial intelligence are the three most popular, with more than a third on those courses from abroad.
More than half of international students in the UK are from just seven countries — China, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Portugal, the US and Ireland — with those from China making up two in nine of the total.
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