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Medicine: Higher Education

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 23 March 2025UIN 34440

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of medical school places are occupied by non-UK nationals.

Answered by Janet Daby

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for collecting and publishing data on the UK higher education sector. These data are shared with the department and include a wide range of information on students in UK higher education providers (HEPs), including their legal nationality.

In the 2022/23 academic year, there were 84,230 student enrolments in medicine and dentistry subjects at UK HEPs, of which 19,990 held a legal nationality other than British or dual-British nationality, representing 24.7% of those with known legal nationality.

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