Universities' uncertainty over applications and places has been compounded by concerns over demand from overseas students.
Postgraduate courses have become an important source of income for universities, particularly from overseas students.
Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant challenged the validity of telling fee-paying overseas students to "pack their bags".
In order to sponsor overseas students, any institution must qualify for the UK Border Agency's "Highly Trusted Status".
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And he warned that the loss of income from overseas students "throws into jeopardy the future of the university".
Furthermore, Britain now attracts more overseas students to its art and design colleges than to any other comparable institutions.
Mr Blomfield, Labour MP for Sheffield Central, said this research provided evidence of the economic value of overseas students.
The campus will offer postgraduate courses for UK and overseas students in subjects including accounting, architecture and public health.
And Canada has perhaps gone further than any country in wooing overseas students.
Jeremy Corbyn called on the immigration minister to allow overseas students already studying at the university to complete their degrees.
There have been calls from MPs for a rethink on the removal of existing overseas students from London Metropolitan University.
"It has never been more urgent to underline the warmth of the UK welcome to overseas students, " said Prof Acton.
And there are forecasts from the British Council that the number of overseas students coming to the UK could triple.
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Last week, London Metropolitan University became the first university in the UK to be stripped of the right to sponsor overseas students.
Last week the government confirmed that it was rejecting calls for overseas students to be removed from targets to cut net migration.
But set against such spending are the extra pressures on public services from these overseas students, including health, recreation and the police.
Overseas students increased at a sharper rate, rising by more than 20%.
In September, the courts gave the university a partial reprieve, allowing it to teach existing overseas students until the end of the academic year.
Earlier this year the BBC News website highlighted a whistleblower's concerns that degrees were being awarded to overseas students who spoke almost no English.
Britain lures more overseas students than any other country except America.
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But he emphasised the necessity to implement the immigration rules - telling MPs that the university had "significant systemic problems" in its recruitment of overseas students.
With only a minority of its income coming from sources, such as research grants and overseas students, it is depends on 60% of Scottish government funding.
There have been huge pressure to recruit massive numbers of overseas students and they have gone in for rather desperate searches for profits at all costs.
But with the start of term only a few weeks away, Mr Green was accused of disrupting legitimate overseas students at the most difficult time for them.
Applications from European Union students rose 1.8% on last year's figures, and despite changes to visa rules for overseas students their applications were up 5.1% to 10, 117.
Greedy for the extra cash they bring, our universities desperately seek overseas students and often ask no questions when some of them fail to appear for classes.
The pursuit of overseas students has become big business - with UK universities competing with higher education institutions in countries such as the United States and Australia.
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Universities had previously expressed fears about the loss of overseas students from tighter visa rules - but Universities UK said that their concerns had been taken into account.
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