The number of foreign students in the UK has risen by over a third in the last year.
Immigration figures show that around 362,000 visas were issued in the 12 months up to June.
Recently the issue of study visas has been brought into the spotlight following controversy of increasing numbers of students entering the country to attend bogus colleges. These have been used to allow people to enter the country to work illegally.
One bogus institution, Cambridge College of Learning in east London was shut down last year after receiving applications for post-graduate study visas from more than 2,500 graduates in just two months.