Overseas Students: Loans
2026-05-12 · Department for Education · 298 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who are not United Kingdom nationals received a student loan for the first time in each of the last five academic years, broken down by (a) nationality group and (b) type of loan.
Answer
The attached table provides the number of non-UK nationals who received a first loan for the 2020/21 to 2024/25 academic years, by loan type and nationality.Eligibility for student finance is not based on nationality, but on immigration status and residen...