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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Carmen Aguilar García, Sally Weale, Lucy Swan and Harvey Symons

Fifth of UK universities’ income comes from overseas students, figures show

Students sit in a lecture theatre with a person teaching at the front.
Universities say they need fees from overseas students because domestic fees have barely risen since 2012. Photograph: Peter Muller/Getty Images/Image Source

One in every five pounds received by UK universities last year came from international students, according to Guardian analysis that reveals the scale of the sector’s growing dependence on overseas tuition fees for financial survival.

With the annual dash to allocate university places for the next academic year about to begin, there are fears UK students could lose out to their overseas counterparts, whose higher fees have become critical to university budgets.

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