Visiting Student Office

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 origin Number of students
United States of America  602
France 121
Canada 112
Spain 80
Australia 79
China 75
Germany 73
Netherlands 49
Italy 45
Singapore 37

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

School/College Number of enrolments
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures 1213
School of Social and Political Science 1171
Business School 809
School of History, Classics and Archaeology 447
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences 469
Edinburgh College of Art 320
School of Law 291
School of Economics 217
College of Science and Engineering  183
School of Health in Social Science 138
School of Divinity 112
Edinburgh Futures Institute 85
Centre for Open Learning 69
Moray House School of Education and Sport 25
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences 10