The International Student Blog

English as a second language is a thriving industry in the UK, with an estimate 600,000 students traveling to the UK each year to study. More than half of these also then go on to higher education courses – and for this reason the English Language industry brings in over £1.5bn to the British economy […]

The Guardian Newspaper in the UK has published its 2010 league table of University listings in the UK. As one of the leading sources of university listings for UK Universities, its an excellent guide to know what schools are the top performers. This year, Oxford has topped the table again, holding onto its position as […]

A feature that not many of your will be aware of on InternationalStudent.com is our video profiles for various schools around the world. The video profiles are of schools from the USA, UK and Europe and offer you the opportunity to learn more about campuses and what a university is really like through online videos. […]

As we have announced recently, we have a brand new student blogger who is joining the InternationalStudent.com blogging team. Laura is now our resident study in the USA student blogger and will be blogging throughout the year on all aspects of being an international student in the USA. She has already started her blogs as […]

Although the USA is a huge draw for many students that want to study internationally, the UK is easily the number 2 destination for international students. Traditionally funding to study in the USA can be very hard to find, however with the International Student Loan Program and the International Financial Aid Center that we have […]

2007 is going to be a huge year for InternationalStudent.com as we embark on an ambitious plan to totally revamp the site and the content. As part of this over the coming months you will see some great new additions, and also some updates to old favourites. Our Study in the UK section of UK […]

Whilst researching some new material for our Study in the UK section of InternationalStudent.com, I came across some really interesting (and funny) statistics that I thought I had to share with everyone – there are over 390,000 official Jedi Knights in the UK that recognize “Jedi” as their main religion!! I found this as we […]