Nigerian college students are more and more looking for greater training in the UK, with 30,204 research visas granted within the yr ending December 2025, a 59% improve in comparison with 2024.
This info comes from the newest Dwelling Workplace report on UK visa purposes and outcomes.
The figures place Nigeria among the many fastest-growing nationalities for UK research visas in 2025.
In accordance with the report, Nigeria recorded 30,204 research visas within the yr ending December 2025, putting it simply behind Pakistan, which ranked third with 30,781 visas.
Indian nationals obtained the best variety of sponsored research visas with 95,231 grants (23% of whole), whereas Chinese language college students adopted with 89,019 visas (22%), though this represented a 15% decline from the earlier yr and 34% beneath their peak in September 2021.
Nigerian nationals had been among the many main {groups} granted study-related extensions within the UK within the yr ending December 2025.
A complete of three,894 Nigerians already within the UK had been permitted to increase their keep on the scholar route, enabling them to proceed their research or, for these not beforehand on a pupil visa, to change onto a sponsored research programme.
This quantity, mixed with extensions for Chinese language (11,076) and Indian (5,968) nationals, accounted for over half of all study-related extensions granted in the course of the interval. Total, 34,538 principal candidates within the UK obtained extensions to proceed their research, a 5% decline from the earlier yr.
The applying course of, together with biometric submission at visa centres, stays unchanged. The rollout follows earlier reforms that started transitioning research and work visa candidates to digital information in 2025.