<p>You should be worried about employment. One of my neighbors got a degree from the U of East Anglia in creative writing or some such field–and it’s VERY highly rated in that field. After a few years of getting nowhere job-wise in the US, she moved to the UK. </p>
<p>Three problems: (1) I don’t think US students can work while they are in the school in the UK and the vacations are so different that it’s hard to line up “summer” jobs in the US. In many cases, this means your student will graduate with no work experience and be competing with lilberal arts grads in the US who HAVE work experience and internships. (2) There is no on-campus job recruitment and no career services office, at least for US jobs. Many young US college grads get their first jobs through these.
(3) I may be wrong about this, but admissions to US law/med/graduate programs usually require recommendations from profs. The same system just doesn’t exist in the UK from what I can figure out, so it MIGHT be difficult to get those recs, especially 2-3 years later, should your student then decide to go on to law/med/grad school. </p>
<p>I am NOT claiming that these are insurmountable problems, but I do think they are something to think about. I think they are much smaller issues for kids with Oxbridge degrees because US employers have certainly heard of Cambridge and Oxford, but below that level, it may be harder to get a job in the US with a degree from a UK university than an American one.</p>