Who are our visiting students?

Find out about our visiting students: the overall numbers, where they originate, and what they are studying.

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences invites international undergraduate students to spend a semester or an academic year undertaking credits from a choice of hundreds of courses. The University of Edinburgh has European exchange agreements with around 180 universities in more than 20 countries and over 100 worldwide partners in around 18 countries.

Our numbers for 2022/23

In the 2022/23 academic year 1647 students studied with us in Edinburgh.

Our top 10 countries of origin were:

Country of originNumber of students
United States of America 602
France121
Canada112
Spain80
Australia79
China75
Germany73
Netherlands49
Italy45
Singapore37

Our students studied courses in a wide range of subject areas including: 

School/CollegeNumber of enrolments
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures1213
School of Social and Political Science1171
Business School809
School of History, Classics and Archaeology447
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences469
Edinburgh College of Art320
School of Law291
School of Economics217
College of Science and Engineering 183
School of Health in Social Science138
School of Divinity112
Edinburgh Futures Institute85
Centre for Open Learning69
Moray House School of Education and Sport25
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences10