New Zealand is benefiting from other countries' visa crackdowns - as international students look elsewhere.

More than 92-thousand students were enrolled last year, up 11 percent on the year prior, but still well down on pre-Covid numbers.

Waikato University Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley told Ryan Bridge it's not just politics in the United States that are leading people here.

He says visa policies in Canada, Australia and the UK are changing too.