A total of 16,700 foreigners students have chosen Bulgaria for their higher education, which is 2.4% more than the previous academic year and 29.1% more than the academic year 2016/2017.

The largest number of foreign students is from Greece - 24.5%, followed by those from Great Britain - 16.1%, Germany - 9.2%, Ukraine - 7%, and North Macedonia - 6.1%. The most preferred specialties for foreign students are in the field of healthcare as 62.1% of them have enrolled in such programmes.