Spain and the UK are the top destinations, as over 360,000 undergraduate and master's students from the EU took part in a mobility programme of at least three months, the latest Eurostat data shows.
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00:00Which countries attract the highest number of EU grad students?
00:10In 2022, 9% of university students in the EU, almost 364,000,
00:18participated in a mobility program abroad.
00:22Most of them, 11%, went to Spain.
00:26The UK was the second most preferred destination with 9.7%,
00:32followed by the US at 7.2%.
00:36Some countries attracted students from specific EU nations.
00:42For example, in Greece, 54% of students on a mobility program were from Cyprus.
00:50In Italy, 51% of them came from Malta,
00:55while Germany hosted 27% of students from Luxembourg.
01:01Which nationalities take the greatest advantage of these mobility programs?
01:07French students are by far the most numerous on the move,
01:12accounting for 49.5% of the total, nearly 180,000 just in 2022.
01:21Germans rank second with 14%, followed by Italian students at 13%.