Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many British students have left the country to study at universities in (a) the EU and (b) the rest of the world in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) collect and publish the number of British students studying wholly overseas. Tertiary education is defined as International Standard Classification of Education levels 5-8. This information can be found in the attached table.

In addition ERASMUS collect and publish further information on the number of students studying overseas as part of their studies at their UK university.

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about/statistics_en.