Indians are the top nationality that makes up the student population in England and Wales

According to an analysis released in London on Monday, with 43,175 students enrolled at higher educational institutions during the 2021 census

Indians are the top most nationality that makes up the students population in England and Wales, followed closely by China at 11.2 per cent, 41,810 Chinese students enrolled in the two regions of the United Kingdom.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has been analyzing census statistics, said, "India (11.6 per cent), China (11.2 per cent), Romania (9.5 per cent) and Nigeria (5.3 per cent) were the top four individual countries of birth of international students,". 

Also, Indian students were among the most likely to be employed, at 11.9 per cent, after Romania, at 21.4 per cent. At the same time, most Indian students recorded English as their main language; Telugu, Urdu, Malayalam, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil and Marathi were among the other languages recorded in the census.

The ONS said it defines an international student as someone who was "a usual resident in England and Wales and met all the following criteria: in full-time education; non-UK-born; non-UK passport holder; aged 17 years or over upon most recent arrival in the UK; and aged 18 years or over on Census Day".