UK higher education, long one of the country’s leading service exports, is experiencing its sharpest slowdown in years as visa curbs and proposed levies squeeze overseas demand and university finances.
Business schools — which provide UK universities with about a third of international students and the largest share of income from all tuition fees — are particularly exposed, with two in three students coming from overseas.
That dependence is proving costly: the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) says international postgraduate enrolments fell this year at nearly two-fifths of UK schools, although this was an improvement on three-quarters the previous year. Many in the sector believe MBAs have borne the brunt of the ban on most overseas students bringing dependants.
Meanwhile European schools saw a marked rise in applications across programmes, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council.
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