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University of Glasgow

Glasgow · Higher Education Institution

Track record

gla.ac.uk

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

55.872, -4.288

University in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1451

Principal and Vice-Chancellor:
Andy Schofield
Founded:
1451
gla.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
35.9%
of students are international
13,880 of 38,710 students · HESA 2024/25
Recruitment mix
66%
from the top three countries
122 countries of origin represented
Student voice
83.6%
Course quality
-0.7 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
University of Glasgow
Status
Student Sponsor - Track Record
Routes
Student
Immigration compliance
No entry recorded
Town / city
Glasgow
Additional locations
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

2 recorded
16 Jun 2025Flag clearedCompliance flag removed (was: Subject to Action Plan)(observed between 17 Mar 2025 and 16 Jun 2025)
17 Mar 2025Flag addedCompliance flag added: Subject to Action Plan(observed between 16 Sept 2024 and 17 Mar 2025)

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.

Coverage

2 items

Third-party reporting that names this institution. Headlines are the publishers’ own; we add no summary and draw no conclusion from them. All coverage →