University of Portsmouth

Portsmouth · Higher Education Institution

Track record

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

50.795, -1.094

University in Portsmouth, UK

Vice-Chancellor:: Graham Galbraith
Founded:: 1869

port.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

24.5%

of students are international

5,880 of 24,015 students · HESA 2024/25

Recruitment mix

42%

from the top three countries

96 countries of origin represented

First degree outcomes

88.5%

complete their course

+0.2 points vs benchmark

First degree outcomes

71.9%

progress to professional work or study

UK-domiciled graduates · Office for Students

Student voice

87.6%

Teaching positivity

+0.6 points vs benchmark

TEF 2023

Gold

overall rating

Experience Gold · Outcomes Silver

These figures are not all from the same year, and no source publishes them together. students 2024/25, outcomes 2016–2019, survey 2026, TEF 2023. 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 Portsmouth
Status: Student Sponsor - Track Record
Routes: Student
Immigration compliance: No entry recorded
Town / city: Portsmouth
Additional locations: International College Portsmouth (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

UKPRN: 10007155
Registration category: Approved (fee cap)
University title: Yes
Degree-awarding powers: ResearchAwarded 1992
Fee limit: Higher
TEF 2023: GoldStudent experience: Gold · Student outcomes: Silver
Specific conditions: None recorded
Monetary penalty: None recorded
Registration suspended: None recorded

Source: OfS Register, retrieved 3 Sept 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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.