Students are the section of the population most actively involved in internal migration in Britain

• Students are the section of the population most actively involved in internal migration in Britain

• Increasing numbers of students are entering into higher education, with large numbers of students becoming features of many of Britain’s major urban centres

• Students have significant social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts on the areas they live with issues such as ‘studentification’ becoming active topics of political debate

• Times series and cross-sectional analysis of student migration data in Britain should allow for greater understanding and prediction of student in-migration impacts