While a majority of Indian students recorded English as their main language, Telugu, Urdu, Malayalam, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil and Marathi were among the other languages recorded in the census.The ONS said it defines an international student as someone who was a usual resident in England and Wales and meets all the following criteria in full-time education non-UK-born non-UK passport holder aged 17 years or over upon most recent arrival in the UK and aged 18 years or over on Census Day.International students in higher education HE are an important sub-group of the population in England and Wales.