Officials from the University of Huddersfield are stepping up their worldwide recruitment.
They plan to open an office in Hanoi, Vietnam, within weeks to add to ones already in use in China and in Nigeria.
And they are using Huddersfield graduates to spread the word about the town.
“Who better to tempt new students than people who have been here, studied here and gone through a course?” said the university’s international e-marketing officer, Alan Tobi.
“They are already working in Beijing and in Lagos, and within weeks we will have a team set up in Vietnam.
“We are determined to attract more overseas students to Huddersfield”.
Many students from all over the world are already here.
The Queensgate campus now has more than 3,000 overseas students who come to the town from 130 different countries. That’s about one in eight of the entire student population.
And this week, many of them gathered on the campus to learn more about each other.
They put on a spectacular show of art, music and food.
The event was the fifth International Food and Culture Festival and follows the success of one held in March.
It was testimony to the university’s growing reputation across the world for attracting students.
The festival is a way of getting many of them together, along with British students, to celebrate their individual cultures and to get to know each other.
The roll call of student societies taking part was impressive: Czech Republic, Vietnam, China, Kurdistan, Romania, Italy, Burma, Latin America, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, Cyprus, Iraq, Pakistan, Bulgaria, France, East Africa, Kazakhstan, Germany, Chechnya, Jammu and Kashmir, The Baltics and India.
Between them they laid on a host of performances of dancing, singing, games, cuisine and activities from around the globe.
The event was run by the university's international student societies and supported by the events management team.
Mr Tobi said: “This is one of the highlights of the university calendar and is enjoyed by staff as well as students.
“It is a way for people to celebrate their cultures, cuisine and fashion as well as bringing people together, and it has gone really well.”
The largest group of international students at Huddersfield is from China, closely followed by Nigeria and Lithuania.
