In 2024/25, the Open University, which focuses on remote learning, had approximately ** students enrolled in courses, the highest in the UK during that academic year. After the Open University, University College London had the highest number of students in the UK, at *, while the University of Manchester had the second-highest, at *. The UK's oldest university, the University of Oxford, had *Â students studying there in this academic year.
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