Overseas Students

(asked on 25th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution to the UK economy of overseas students studying at (a) Russell Group, (b) University Alliance and (c) MillionPlus universities.


This question was answered on 1st December 2016

The Department has not made an assessment of the contribution to the UK economy of overseas students studying at universities represented by Russell Group, University Alliance and Million Plus.

However, the Government’s International Education Strategy, published in July 2013, did include an analysis of the value of all overseas students to the UK. This estimated that EU and Non-EU students at UK universities contributed £9.7 billon in 2011 to the UK economy (tuition fees and living expenditure).

The Department will shortly be publishing the latest estimates of the total value of education exports to the UK economy for 2014.

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