IE College in Segovia, Spain, was ranked high within the worldwide scholar range class, adopted by Vistula College in Warsaw, Poland, and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Different universities with the very best ratios of scholar nationalities are Poland’s College of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Maastricht College within the Netherlands, Cyprus’s College of Nicosia and the College of Luxembourg.

QS says that universities with sizeable populations of scholars from quite a lot of nationalities can deliver alternatives for networking, cultural exchanges along with extra numerous studying experiences and alumni range.

Solely this month, IE College introduced 23 new full-time professors and researchers with worldwide profiles had joined its college.

The UK’s high ranked college for range is Coventry College, which is positioned quantity eight, forward of the College of Sunderland in tenth.

The information present 162 totally different nationalities are represented inside Coventry College Group’s seven UK places.

Coventry College vice chancellor, John Latham, mentioned the rating is a “reflection of the arduous work we now have put into constructing productive relationships with organisations throughout the globe, all of which offers monumental advantages to college students internationally and throughout the UK”.

He additionally pointed to the college’s campuses in Wroclaw in Poland, department campus in Egypt, a joint institute in China and the recently-launched Worldwide Institutes in Morocco. Moreover, Coventry has a community of World Hubs in China, Africa, Dubai, Singapore and Brussels, with one other to open in India later this yr.

QS famous that the UK achieves Europe’s third-highest common Worldwide Pupil Range indicator rating per establishment amongst places with 10 or extra ranked establishments.

Solely Switzerland and Austria boast a better common, with every benefitting from a considerably smaller variety of ranked universities, it added.

Nevertheless, the UK sees room for enchancment in its scholar change applications, with no UK college reaching a high 20 rank for the Inbound or Outbound Pupil Alternate metric.

The Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas, College of Nicosia and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona topped the inbound metric, whereas Institut Nationwide des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA), Comillas Pontifical College and IE College all did finest within the outbound rating.

“The UK, considerably predictably, shines throughout indicators underpinned partially by the worldwide renown of the historic Oxbridge universities and its high-impact, globally collaborative analysis,” QS senior vice chairman Ben Sowter mentioned.

“Nevertheless, signposts for achievement are illuminated in all places by the respective challenges recognized by the datasets, whether or not incentivising worldwide college and college students, growing cross-border analysis partnerships or increasing educating capability.”

Enhancing analysis productiveness and scholar change applications will drive larger success amongst UK establishments in future rankings, he continued.

“Sustaining the UK’s world enchantment will reinforce the muse on which a lot of its success is constructed”

“In the meantime, sustaining its competitiveness and world enchantment for worldwide college students will reinforce the muse on which a lot of its success is constructed, to not point out the huge funding that such college students present, and on which the UK has come to rely,” Sowter concluded.

Spain boasts a few of the most cellular scholar cohorts, with three of Europe’s high 5 universities for Outbound Pupil Alternate and two for Inbound Pupil Alternate, greater than every other nation, QS added.

French establishments corresponding to Université PSL, Sorbonne College, Université de Montpellier and Université Paris Cité do nicely within the worldwide analysis metric, with excessive ranges of cross-border collaboration, whereas Germany’s “premier establishments produce an distinctive quantity of analysis”.

The Netherlands “instructions the area’s best total renown amongst worldwide employers and lecturers alike”, and Italy shines for outbound scholar mobility, the rating exhibits.

Italy has extra universities within the high 50 for outbound college students, with Ca’ Foscari College of Venice, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Free College of Bozen-Bolzano all represented within the high 15 in that metric.

Switzerland additionally excels for internationalisation, boasting considered one of Europe’s most numerous scholar and school cohorts, which QS famous is significantly pronounced for the worldwide college ratio.