Higher education

  • The UK has over 90 universities and offers a vast range of courses, enabling students to specialise or find a course that meets their requirements
  • Over 250,000 new students study in the UK every year, taking advantage of the extensive infrastructure that exists to help them get the most they can from the experience UK universities and colleges are truly international, with students from all over the world contributing to an academic and cultural society
  • British qualifications are a benchmark of educational quality and welcomed around the world
  • The analytical method of study develops an enquiring, independent and creative approach that equips students to cope with the demands of a globalised world economy as well as maximising their own personal potential
  • Scientists and Universities in the UK have won almost 100 Nobel Prizes and many of the world’s leaders, thinkers and artists graduated from the UK system of higher education