Overseas Pupil Numbers

The high quality of British independent education is known and respected worldwide, and this attracts many thousands of overseas students from across the globe to study in the UK at British independent schools each year.

24,554ISC pupils are non-British with parents living overseas. The value to the UK economy of fees paid from overseas sources was over £475 million in 2010.  

In 2010/11, there were 10,900 non-British pupils with parents living overseas who were new to ISC schools that academic year. Approximately 36% of these were from Hong Kong and China, and nearly one-third were from Europe. In addition, 3,044 British pupils whose parents lived abroad (excluding HM Forces) also joined ISC schools.

The breakdown by country of pupils in 2010/11 whose permanent homes were overseas may be found in ISC's Annual Census.