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► International Cohort Grows

28th September 2006 5:44 pm

According to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Education at a Glance 2006, the number of international students choosing a British education continues to grow.

With 13.4 per cent of students from abroad, UK campuses are the second most internationalised among OECD countries, beaten only by Australia (16.6 per cent). Both are well ahead of the OECD average of 6.5 per cent.

In 2004, 33 per cent of students completing masters courses in the UK and almost 37 per cent of PhDs were from abroad. The UK was outranked only by Australia for masters courses (39 per cent of output) and by Switzerland for doctorates (41 per cent).  Masters graduates from overseas did not exceed a fifth in any other country for which the OECD collected data in 2004.

The findings suggest that international students are sufficiently convinced of the perceived quality and status of courses offered by British universities to pay tuition fees that are above the OECD average.

Outside the EU, the UK's main sources of international students are China (15.9 per cent), India (4 per cent) and the US (4.5 per cent). The proportion of students from Asia rose from 40.8 per cent of total intake to 46.9 per cent in a year.

For the full article see Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 September 2006

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