Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
(asked on 27th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications were received in each year from 2010 to 2016 for a Tier 4 (General) student visa using sponsor acceptances from a Russell Group higher education institution.
Information on the total number of applicants for visas for study at Higher Education Institutions using sponsor acceptances is published in Sponsorship table cs_09 in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, October - December 2016’, available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#sponsorship
The requested information is provided in the table below.
Applicants for visas for study at Higher Education Institutions using sponsor acceptances |
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| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Applications for Visas |
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UK-based Higher Education Institutions | 143,177 | 152,536 | 156,627 | 167,990 | 168,562 | 166,356 | 167,554 |
Of which |
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Russell Group | 54,520 | 58,230 | 61,474 | 68,424 | 70,972 | 75,628 | 80,360 |
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Source: Immigration Statistics, October to December 2016, table cs_09 and underlying datasets |
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