Nearly one in five English-taught programmes are now available outside of the ‘big four’ English-speaking study destinations of the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Canada, according to a major survey looking at the growth in degree courses taught in English by universities in non-English speaking countries.
The global overview, The Changing Landscape of English-Taught Programmes, published by the British Council and comparison study choice platform Studyportals on 7 December 2021, identified 27,874 full masters and bachelor degree programmes taught in English outside the big four English-speaking study destination nations.
Until recently the main competition for English-taught programmes (ETPs) came from European higher education institutions in countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark as well as from smaller English-speaking countries like Ireland and New Zealand.
But trends since January 2017 reveal it is the Chinese and Sub-Saharan African regions that have seen the fastest percentage growth rate of ETPs, doubling their provision in the last five years, Edwin van Rest, founder and chief executive officer of Studyportals, told University World News.
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P.S. By comparison, Ukraine’s Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) offers 13 English-taught programmes including five and eight master’s and bachelor’s degree programmes respectively. As far as disciplines are concerned, ETPs are mainly offered by KPI in engineering and computer science.