Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the number of students in British universities who have opted to study abroad as a part of their degree in each of the last five years.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on higher education (HE) at UK Higher Education Providers (HEPs). Latest statistics refer to the 2021/22 academic year.

HESA has included a new table in their Open Data resources from this year, showing HE student enrolments by their location of study, which includes if the student was abroad for the whole or proportion of the year. This data item displays actual participation in a placement abroad rather than the students’ intent at the start of the course, and the information is available for individual HEPs.

The numbers of student enrolments studying abroad in the latest five years is provided in table 60, which can be found here:https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-60.