 Though students numbers had increased in the 80s, 90s, and up to 2011, they began to reduce due to changes in immigration rules and dropped further after 2016 due to Brexit.Of these, 2,880 are from EU, and the rest are from UK, Asia and Africa.The University of Southampton, which was founded in 1862 and received its Royal Charter as a university in 1952, has over 22,000 students.