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Each year since 2008, Times Higher Education has compiled a "Table of Tables" to combine the results of the 3 mainstream league tables. In the 2022 table, the top 5 universities were the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of St Andrews, the London School of Economics and Imperial College.
The recruitment target was met ten years early and in the 2021/22 academic year, there were 679,790 international students studying at UK higher education institutions, equivalent to 24% of all higher education students in the UK – ranging from 16.8% in Wales to 27.4% in Scotland. This represented a 12.3% increase in international students ...
Edinburgh (20th), Manchester (27th), King's College London (33rd), LSE (44th), and Bristol (49th) also make the top fifty and a further nine UK universities (eighteen total) make the top 100. [187] The Academic Ranking of World Universities also places Cambridge (third in 2019) and Oxford (seventh) consistently in the world top ten. [206]
In 2015, net immigration to the UK from other EU countries was approximately 172,000, compared to 191,000 from non-EU countries. [8] The population of the EU was around 500 million at the time of the referendum [9] while the population of the world was 7.4 billion. [10]
International student. International students or exchange students, also known as foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their secondary or tertiary education in a country other than their own. In 2021, there were over 6.39 million international students, up from 5.12 million in 2016. The most popular destinations were the ...
Islam is the second-largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2021 Census recording just under four million Muslims, or 6.0% of the total population in the United Kingdom. [ 7][ 8] London has the largest population and greatest proportion (15%) of Muslims in the country. [ 9][ 10][ 11] The vast majority of British Muslims in ...
Funding. In 2015/16, the UK spent £3.2 billion on early years education, £27.7 billion on primary education, £38.2 billion on secondary education and £5.9 billion on tertiary education. In total, the UK spent £83.4 billion on education (includes £8.4 billion on other categories). [ 36]
This article comprises two lists of institutions in the United Kingdom ranked by the number of students enrolled in higher education courses. The first list, based on data from the academic year 2019/20, breaks down student enrollment by level of study, while the second list, from the more recent academic year 2021/22, provides a total student enrollment figure without distinguishing between ...