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Fact file

Published on
August 8, 1997
Last updated
May 27, 2015

* 78.5 per cent of the 1.72 million students in the UK are undergraduates

* Overseas students in the UK number 196,346, comprising 11.4 per cent of the total

* 43.5 per cent of UK first-year, full-time, first-degree students were 18 years and under

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