UK UNIVERSTIES INCREASE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADMISSIONS AND CONTINUE TO SCORE HIGHLY
We analyse how UK
Universities have performed in the latest QS World University Rankings.
The latest QS World University Rankings has revealed that UK universities have continued to increase their proportion of international students, despite recent reports about the new VISA regulations deterring overseas students from heading to the British Isles.
The QS rankings show that British universities are taking on even more international students than ever before. The top 100 universities have almost 10% more overseas students on average this year, compared to 2011.
The 49 UK universities which are ranked in the top 500 list have seen an 11.7% average increase in international students, when compared with 2011.
It is also interesting that 6 of the top 20 universities with the highest proportion of overseas students are in the UK - they are the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UCL, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), St Andrews, Imperial and
Essex. This provides strong evidence that the UK is still well ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of its ability to attract overseas students.
QS head of research Ben Sowter said: “The unprecedented acceleration in international recruitment reflects an escalating global battle for talent.
“120,000 more international students were reported by the top 500 universities this year, suggesting the global total may now exceed 4 million.”
In terms of the top 500 rankings UK universities continue to perform
extremely well. 4 of the top 6 universities in the world are in the UK. However, Cambridge lost its top place spot which was held in both 2011 and 2010, to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The other top UK universities were; University College London (UCL) in fourth place, Oxford University at number 5 and Imperial College in sixth. All of the other universities in the top ten were from the USA. There were 18 UK universities overall in the top 100
The UK universities to make the top 100 are: Cambridge University (2), UCL (4), Oxford University
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