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Edinburgh · Higher Education Institution

Track record

www.ed.ac.uk

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

Your market here

Pick a country and this says how many of its students University of Edinburgh teaches, what share of its international cohort they are, and how large a recruiter it is from that market. Every figure is arithmetic on what HESA publishes — nothing here is modelled, ranked by us, or scored.

Students from
At this provider
7,225
students from China
HESA 2024/25, rounded to the nearest 5
Of its international cohort
44.5%
of 16,235 non-UK students
How much of its overseas intake this one market is
Among UK recruiters
3rd
of 157 providers taking students from China
5.1% of all students from China at a reporting provider. Providers with the same rounded count share a place.

How concentrated its recruitment is

59% of University of Edinburgh’s international students come from its three largest markets — China, United States, India. It draws on 122 countries in total. A provider concentrated in one or two markets is more exposed to a visa change or a currency move in those markets; that is a fact about the shape of its intake, not a judgement about the provider.

Its students from China split first degree 3,135, other undergraduate 35, postgraduate (research) 720, postgraduate (taught) 3,335.

Students from China, 2014/15 to 2024/25

2,5005,0007,5002014/152024/257,225
Students from China · +308% since 2014/15

Each year is rounded to the nearest 5, so a small market moves in steps of five and a change of five may be rounding alone.

HESA DT051 Table 28, non-UK students by provider and country of permanent address, 2024/25. Open data under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5 by HESA, so shares and ranks carry that rounding. The rank compares the 157-odd providers that make a country return — not all 947 sponsors on this site, most of which are schools and colleges with no HESA return at all.