More students are being educated abroad by UK universities, new figures reveal, though a majority of these are enrolled at just over a dozen institutions.
Statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 532,460 transnational education (TNE) students were registered at UK institutions in 2021-22 – a 9 per cent rise on the year before, and around 100,000 more than in 2019-20.
Of those, a quarter studied via distance learning, a quarter at an overseas partner organisation, and 7 per cent at a branch campus.
The remaining 42 per cent did so through collaborative provision which typically includes double and joint awards and franchised provisions.
