Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many overseas students have started undergraduate degrees at UK universities in each of the past 10 years.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for collecting and publishing data on the UK higher education sector. This data is shared with the department and includes a wide range of information on students in UK higher education providers (HEPs), including their country of domicile.

Between 2015/16 and 2024/25, international entrants to undergraduate courses at UK HEPs have increased from 103,000 to 123,000. Year on year details are in the table below.

Counts of entrants to UK HEPs by domicile are published in Table 1 of HESA’s Student Data.