| Comment | > Considering that there is supposed to be way less students than before Brexit
It's quite the opposite, really - 2019-20 was the last year that EU students were classed as Home students rather than international students, and Glasgow Uni had around 30,000 students then. As of last year, it's about 38,000.
There's been a slight reduction of EU students in that timeframe (from about 3,300 to 2,600), and a slight increase in UK students (from about 18,000 to 20,000), but the number of international students has increased substantially from around 8,000 to a little over 14,000.
Whether this holds for this year is a bit uncertain - most of the increase for international students was down to postgraduate taught courses (e.g 1 year masters degrees), and these primarily being online for the past two years could make them more attractive, but even pre-Covid international students have been the primary growth area of universities, especially for PGT courses.
Now obviously this isn't really the whole story (because of things like purpose-built student accommodation, and students being more likely to live in HMOs/larger properties in general, they don't necessarily have the same impact on different parts of the market) |
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