The data, from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa), showed overall student numbers at UK universities remained stable at just under two and a half million.
According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, there were 39, 090 Indian students on UK courses in 2010-11, 13% of the total non-EU student population and second only to China.
Figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) also indicate a fall of 2% to 216, 000 in the overall number of students enrolling for full time first year courses.
BBC: Increase in number of EU students at Scots universities
Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.
Falls in part-time students have also been seen in Scotland and to a lesser extent in Wales, while numbers in Northern Ireland have stayed broadly the same, according to earlier figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Statistics released recently by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show that since 2010, across England, part-time undergraduate numbers have fallen by 40%, while part-time postgraduate numbers fell 27%.
All of these statistics figured rather prominently in the Times Higher Education story, but perhaps the most interesting statistic is one which was buried half-way down, namely that the share of those with degree qualifications in high skilled occupations actually fell between 1993 and 2010.
Much thinking about immigration remains shaped by statistics from 30 and 40 years ago, when immigrants arrived with higher levels of education than natives and equaled native wages within a decade.
According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.
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