1 Visitor switchers are visitors who enter or leave the UK intending to stay in the destination country for less than a year, but who actually stay for a year or longer.
2 The equivalent of the CHI in England & Wales.
3 Information on entrants to HEIs is collated centrally by HESA (the Higher Education Statistics Agency) from the administrative systems of the HEIs.
4 Domicile is defined as the area of origin of the student at the time of entry.
5 The collection of destinations for graduates from HEIs is based on a voluntary survey to individual students of all nationalities within the European Union. The survey is undertaken by HESA and is based on a population of primarily full-time students during the academic year, and typically refers to the destination of students six months after graduation.