University of Oxford Facts and Figures

Oxford at a glance There are over 21,000 students at Oxford, including 11,752 undergraduates and 9,621 postgraduates. The University, including the colleges and Oxford University Press, is the largest employer in Oxford and the second largest in Oxfordshire, supporting more than 18,000 jobs and injecting £750 million annually into the regional economy. In the 2011 National Student Survey, 97% of Oxford students found their courses intellectually...

Canada needs more foreign students and more Canadians should go away to study

Student mobility in higher education is a two-way street. We want to attract top students from around the world to study in Canada, and we want Canadian students to benefit from study-abroad experiences. While the incoming traffic of international students is humming along rather nicely, with good growth potential, outgoing traffic is like the road to a Canadian beach in March. Although we still lag behind key competitor countries in international...