Surge in number of students doing UK degrees overseas

By Emily Dance. This year, over 500,000 people entered into British higher education whilst living abroad. For the first time, this figure exceeded that of students coming to the UK to study, which was 400,000, a 6.2 per cent decline on the previous year. According to the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE), in 2011 there were a total of 200 international branch campuses offering degree courses and there are a further 37 scheduled to open this year.
Overseas offshoots of existing UK universities, collaborative provision and distance or flexible learning means there are now more international students gaining a UK degree outside of the country, than those coming to the UK to study, with Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan having the most students enrolled. Read more...