Overseas Students: Visas

(asked on 13th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of student visa holders who progress to graduation.


Answered by
Josh MacAlister Portrait
Josh MacAlister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 31st October 2025

The department does not hold data on what proportion of student visa holders progress to graduation, however, data on non-UK domicile entrants is collected by the Office for Students (OfS).

The OfS publish data on the completion rates of entrants. For full-time first degree non-UK domicile entrants from 2016/17 to 2019/20, 89.9% completed their courses within 4 years 15 days of entry to higher education. This data is published annually and the latest available data was published in August 2025 at : https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/student-outcomes-data-dashboard/data-dashboard/.

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