{"id":369035,"date":"2025-08-24T05:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369035\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:38:23","slug":"8-4-of-tertiary-students-in-the-eu-came-from-abroad-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369035\/","title":{"rendered":"8.4% of tertiary students in the EU came from abroad &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2023, there were 1.76 million students from abroad undertaking tertiary level studies across the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a>, amounting to 8.4% of all students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Among EU countries, Luxembourg had the highest share of foreign students among tertiary education students (52.3%), followed at distance by Malta (29.6%) and Cyprus (22.3%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, Greece (3.0%), Croatia (3.7%) and Spain (4.3%) recorded the lowest shares.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9923fb20-a198-4ca8-88cb-3d9749939820\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Share of tertiary education students from abroad, 2023, % of all students. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9923fb20-a198-4ca8-88cb-3d9749939820\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/bd66a113-5858-489f-8248-111f2d585ac2?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educ_uoe_mobs02<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/bd66a113-5858-489f-8248-111f2d585ac2?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educ_uoe_enrt01<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 20 EU countries, the largest group of students from abroad came from elsewhere in Europe. This share was highest in Slovakia (91.3%), followed by Slovenia (89.4%) and Croatia (89.0%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Students from Asia were the largest group of foreign students in Ireland (45.0%), Finland (43.35), Germany (40.1%) and Italy (36%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/408deb87-e59e-262f-a209-be17a453aecf\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Share of tertiary education students from abroad by continent of origin, 2023, % of all tertiary education students from abroad. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/408deb87-e59e-262f-a209-be17a453aecf\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/b4aa6a1a-0d94-4574-9abb-9a2caf2d8965?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educ_uoe_mobs02<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In France, more than half (52.3%) of tertiary students from abroad in 2023 were from Africa, which was also the largest group of foreign students in Portugal (42.1%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In Spain, most of the foreign tertiary education students (46.7%) were from the Caribbean, Central and South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, there were 1.76 million students from abroad undertaking tertiary level studies across the EU, amounting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,129158,2000,299,5187,64411],"class_list":{"0":"post-369035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-edc","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-population-and-social-conditions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082133903136986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}