The university's licence to sponsor non-EU students was controversially revoked in August last year, leaving hundreds of students without courses.

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Last year, 63% of non-EU students at the London campus accepted job offers within three months of graduation, compared with 84% of those with EU citizenship.

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For example, the student visa system, which admits half a million non-EU students a year, needs a much more effective means of testing whether the applicants are genuine and intend to return home.

BBC: Migrations figures remain steady

The government decided that LMU, which has a business school, was not stringent enough in tracking non-EU students once they were enrolled and in September stopped automatically granting visas to its students. 2, 600 students who had already begun classes, including some on the MBA course, were told that they would have to apply again to an alternative university.

ECONOMIST: Business education

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.

BBC: Mr Johnson with schoolchildren at Amity University