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Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh · Higher Education Institution

Track record

www.napier.ac.uk

The sponsor holds Student Sponsor status with a track record of compliance — the standard standing for an established provider.

55.923, -3.228

University in Scotland

Principal:
Sue Rigby
Founded:
1965
www.napier.ac.uk

Background from Wikidata and Wikipedia, not part of the register record. Sources and corrections →

The Home Office does not publish this sponsor’s visa refusal rate, enrolment rate or course completion rate. Those go to the sponsor in a letter; only the resulting standing reaches the register, and nothing on this page is derived from them. What a sponsor has to hit →

Published evidence

At a glance

A reading aid, not a ranking. Each measure keeps its own source and population.

Student profile
27.5%
of students are international
3,800 of 13,805 students · HESA 2024/25
Recruitment mix
59%
from the top three countries
71 countries of origin represented
Student voice
80.9%
Course quality
+0.6 points vs benchmark

These figures are not all from the same year, and no source publishes them together. students 2024/25, survey 2026. A card that looks worse than another may simply be older. Detailed cohorts, definitions, benchmarks and caveats appear in the sections below.

Home Office register record

Snapshot 7 Sept 2026
Sponsor name
Edinburgh Napier University
Status
Student Sponsor - Track Record
Routes
Student
Immigration compliance
No entry recorded
Town / city
Edinburgh
Additional locations
Edinburgh International College (Embedded College)
Sponsor type
Higher Education Institution (HEI)

Read directly from the Register of Licensed Student Sponsors, snapshot of 7 Sept 2026. The Home Office does not publish per-sponsor visa refusal, enrolment or completion figures.

Office for Students record

No Office for Students record. The OfS regulates English providers only — universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regulated separately, as are overseas institutions holding a UK sponsor licence.

Standing over time

34 snapshots
26 Jan 2024 — 7 Sept 2026 · 34 snapshots

This provider’s standing at every register snapshot we hold, oldest to newest. Gaps mean the provider was not listed on that date.

Recorded register changes

0 recorded

No changes recorded across the snapshots held (26 Jan 2024, 17 Jun 2024, 16 Sept 2024, 17 Mar 2025, 16 Jun 2025, 15 Sept 2025, 17 Nov 2025, 15 Jan 2026, 16 Feb 2026, 16 Mar 2026, 15 Apr 2026, 15 May 2026, 4 Jun 2026, 1 Jul 2026, 10 Jul 2026, 20 Jul 2026, 7 Aug 2026, 10 Aug 2026, 11 Aug 2026, 12 Aug 2026, 13 Aug 2026, 14 Aug 2026, 19 Aug 2026, 20 Aug 2026, 21 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026, 25 Aug 2026, 26 Aug 2026, 27 Aug 2026, 28 Aug 2026, 2 Sept 2026, 3 Sept 2026, 4 Sept 2026, 7 Sept 2026).

Changes are derived by comparing register snapshots. Dates are observation dates — the change occurred at some point in the interval shown, not necessarily on the later date. Check this entry against the live Register of licensed sponsors: students, or against an archived copy in the UK Government Web Archive.