<p>Cupcake wrote:
Contrary to another poster above, I think if you’re paying full international fees a US student will get into any UK university outside oxbridge very easily since they want your money. They need internationals to subsidise the rest. That’s the way it works. It is very expensive!</p>
<p>It is very easy to apply using a single common application form at <a href=“http://www.ucas.com%5B/url%5D”>www.ucas.com</a></p>
<p>Oxford uni web-site has indepth information on US loans for UK study which is in part applicable to other universities as well</p>
<p>Binvolio’s reply:</p>
<p>If you are misled by this post, you will be letting yourself in for a shock. Good UK universities are at least as, if not more, competitive than their US equivalents. Virtually all courses at good universities, say top 20 universities, are heavily oversubscribed, and their websites usually publish these statistics. Undergraduate students doing complete degrees, as opposed to semesters/years abroad, are a very small minority and contribute a tiny part of total university funding. For example, this statistic from the web page of the .student statistics section of University College London, part of the University of London- 58 undergraduate students paying full international fees out of over 11,000 total undergraduate students. Students are admiited to full degrees on merit. It is the Junior Year Abroad/Semester Abroad programs which are the money spinner for UK universities, but students on these programs are guest students of the UK university, and their degree awarding institution back in the US is responsible for them, not the UK university. In fact, there is some evidence that it is harder to get into a full degree program at a good UK university. They have to be convinced that students from a very different educational system can cope, and they are also aware that giving a degree place to an overseas student means taking one away from a UK, EU, or EEA student, to whom they tend to feel some responsibilty.</p>
<p>One other thing to note: there are differential fees according to type of course. BA is least expensive, then BSc, BEng, etc., and finally, Medicine which is truly prohibitive, especially in the final years.</p>