Chinese Applicants Overtake EU as Brexit Raises U.K. Student Fees
- Applicants from bloc fall 43% this year on Brexit fee increase
- U.K. reliance on Chinese students grows as tensions deepen
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Chinese applicants to U.K. universities now outstrip the total number of would-be students from the European Union, highlighting the impact of Brexit and the sector’s growing reliance on China even as relations cool between London and Beijing.
Applicants from the EU dropped by 43% to 28,400, according to data from the U.K. university admissions service UCAS. That compares with 28,490 applications from China, a number that has more than doubled since 2017.