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Basque Country and Galicia are the autonomous communities with less foreign students in relation to their size.

As El Mundo newspaper published on Wednesday, geographer Pedro Reques sounds the alarm in the book&' || 'nbsp; Universidad, Sociedad y Territorio (University, Society and Territory) , which was recently released by CRUE, or the Vice-chancellor Conference of Spanish Universities.

According to Reques, the students are concentrated in a small number of universities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Málaga and the other half are relatively evenly distributed around the rest of the Iberian peninsula.

The University of the Basque Country is an exception given that it hosts an important proportion of the total students in Spain, though the percentage falls significantly in the case of foreign students. Reques also says that the University of Deusto is also receiving very few learners from abroad.

His source is the biennial statistical report published by CRUE, entitled La Universidad española en cifras (The Spanish University in figures). The Basque Country and Galicia were the autonomous communities with less foreign students during the 2007/08 term in the 1st and 2nd cycle courses, and the figures increase in case the data on postgraduates is analysed.
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