There are more first-year students in the UK from Nigeria and India than from across the whole of the European Union, according to the latest data.
Ireland was the only country in the bloc not to see a fall in the number of students enrolled at UK institutions.
The latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that there were 32,945 first-year students from Nigeria in UK higher education in 2021-22 – more than double the 14,270 the year before, and more than four times as many as in 2019-20.
