| Comment | >There might be less flats available, but all 3 Glasgow Unis are taking on more students every year, especially international students that pay a premium
To give a bit of context for this: From 2012 up to about 2019, the growth of students at Glasgow Uni was pretty consistent, going from about 23k students to 30k (or about a 1k increase a year). Then from 2020-2021 it increased by 3k, and last year it increased by about 6k. In other words, the number of students at Glasgow Uni has pretty much doubled in 10 years (and to clarify, this number doesn't include students who are studying distance learning courses, on language years abroad or anything like that).
Looking a bit closer at those numbers: In 2019-20, the uni had around 8,000 international students, while in 2021-22 this increased to around 14,000, noting that the uni charges the same rates for EU and international students but counts them separately (so the way international students are counted didn't change in 2020-21). In particular, looking at nationality data, the vast majority of that growth comes from China (from 3,800 students in 2019-20 to 9,100 students now)and India (from 350 students to 1,000). Over that same period, students from the UK have increased but much more modestly (from about 17,000 students to 19,000), and students from the EU have decreased very slightly (from about 3,300 students to 2,600). |
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