The Wills Memorial Building of Bristol University. Robert Cutts/Flickr. CC (by-sa)
Depending on the course, studying at a UK university costs ‘international students’ (non-UK/EU) at least two to three times more than ‘home’ students.
A March 2017 report by Universities UK analyses the economic impact of international students studying in the UK in 2014-15. This analysis was done by Oxford Economics, where both EU and non-EU students were grouped as international students. According to this report, around 19% of all students registered at UK universities were international students (14% were non-EU students). This generated £4.8 billion (£4.2 billion by non-EU students) in tuition fees and £6.1 billion in subsistence spending and other costs, contributing to around 82% of export earnings generated by universities in the UK in 2014-15.
