<p>In the UK there are schools that can easily compete with Oxbridge such as UCl, IC, and the LSE. U.S. schools know how academically rigurous these schools are, i live in the U.S. and turned down some very good schools here to study at UCL. I know that the UCL law department has a direct transfer to the Columbia Law undergrad degree upon request (and seeing that you meet some strict requirements). Obviously Columbia respects UCL enough to allow its students to directly transfer to it. And i know that Imperial College’s (IC) study abroad students impressed Stanford so much that transferring there from IC is a cake walk. Frankly i really dont know why more U.S. students dont choose to study undergrad overseas as long as they know the area they want to study. Academically the top UK schools can easily compete with the top U.S. schools and i know for a fact it is far far more intensive and you dont get any of the fluff classes. If you pay $40,000 a year, i think you should be able to study what you want, not have to fulfill all these required classes which usually are huge lectures that one doesn’t get anything out of. UK education is about $25,000 to $29,000 a year which includes tuition and room and board and its only a three year program</p>