<p>umm Hi! I'm interested in several unis, such as: St. Mary's University College, Liverpool Hope University, and University of Central Lancashire, and plan on studying Business marketing. (Just so answers don't have to be too vague.) Most of the tuition costs are about £9,000, which is about $14,800 (actually, $30,000 cheaper than what tuition fees are for universities of my choice here!). However, I am still not too sure how much it will costs all together. I know that I'm going to have to pay about £3,000 for accommodation, but what else is there? Do I have to pay some sort of taxes that Americans don't have, like for cable, and how much will that be? What overall costs do you think I'm looking at here, or how much did you pay, ultimately, if you went to uni somewhere in the UK (but specifically England)?</p>
<p>Food is usually separate from accommodation. Health care is covered by the NHS. Most UK students are on tight budgets, but there is always enough for a pint! No special taxes, you only need a TV license if you watch UK shows (technically on any device, not just an actual tv). Most students don’t pay it. It’s £145. Don’t forget to budget for gear- even simple things like hangers are often in short supply. Save some money for trips to France, Italy, etc!</p>
<p>They are very poor universities, I haven’t even heard of St. Mary’s (that’s how obscure it is)! They really are not worth the money. What made you pick them?</p>
<p>If I were you I would aim for better UK universities, they’re not going to be any more expensive - nearly everywhere charges £9,000 fees, and living costs (outside of London) are about the same throughout the country.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure how you are saving $30,000.00. You realize the tuition is L9,000 each year, right? But only three years, not four, so you save some money that way.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>Nordic and Real, I’m guessing that the key variable is admissions standards: it looks as though a D,D at A level would get you an offer from at least one of those unis, so basically siting 2 APs would do it. </p>
<p>Given that she could go to any of the (many) state colleges in the Texas university system for less than going to the UK (including tuition, room, board, books, transport, etc), I’m guessing that an adventure looks like more fun than staying home. </p>
<p>jpena, note that many unis have extra or higher fees for international students- be sure to go through to the international students section. In some cases it’s not a lot (say L1000), but it can be considerably more.</p>
<p>We are currently spending about L20,000 / year in fees and accommodation (including some hefty international student fees) (that does include books), plus food, entertainment and transportation. </p>
<p>You might find this helpful: [International</a> Student Calculator - powered by Brightside ? Student Calculator](<a href=“http://international.studentcalculator.org/]International”>http://international.studentcalculator.org/)</p>
<p>Adventure in Twickenham, Preston or Liverpool?! I’d rather stay in Texas!</p>
<p>You have picked some of the most god-awful universities that the UK has to offer. Unless your grades are truly dire, I’m sure you can do better than that. Plus Preston is grim - you really couldn’t pay me to live there. </p>
<p>If you tell us what you SAT and AP grades are like, then we can suggest some more suitable unis. Have you, for instance, considered Aston? It’s very good for business-based degrees, but doesn’t have uber-high entry requirements.</p>
<p>I think it should be obvious that a uni that will accept two “D” grades at A level is pretty desperate to attract students. Americans are a bit baffled by the “class system”, the “snobbery” if you will, of the UK. There’s a little of this in the USA, but nowhere near as much. Jpena is probably a bit baffled as to why folks are looking down their noses at her choices of schools, but that is just part of the British system. Jpena needs to be aware that many people in the UK will consider those schools the “wrong” schools. The concept is hard to explain to an American.</p>
<p>“Jpena’s” family lives in Preston and liverpool, so that’s why I want to go there. Just so I’m not alone (excluding twickenham). Thank you for the information though to several of you. I was actually advised by my uncle (that was actually murdered in a quite questionable way), who worked for the US government, to get out of America. I don’t have much of a choice but to leave. Y’all have made me feel bad about my decision. I thought this website was just for information on uni? Quite confused.</p>
<p>We’re not trying to make you feel bad about your decision to leave the US, we just want you to go to the best uni you can. </p>
<p>If you want to go to Liverpool, look at Uni of Liverpool. There are no decent unis in Preston, but Uni of Manchester is relatively close (I know people who commute daily), and both Uni of Leeds and Uni of Sheffield are within easy travelling distance, so you could visit regularly. The UK is a small island with public transport far better than what you get in the US, so don’t get too hwt up over distance. If you want to go to London i.e. where Twickenham is, then you have a lot of good choices of unis to go to - UCL, LSE, KCL, QMUL, Goldsmiths etc. </p>
<p>University snobbery is very much alive and well in the UK, and the unis that you’re talking about going to do not attract the brightest and best at all. Because of how uni is funded in the UK, people don’t pick on the basis of price at all (it works out the same to go to Oxford or Liverpool Hope for a UK student), and so you do get a lot of stratification on the basis of academic achievement. This also leads onto the opportunities you have - employers can and do reject people on the basis of what uni you went to. You mentioned on another thread that you’re fourth in your class. You can do SO MUCH better than UCLan / Hope / St Mary’s. Don’t sell yourself short. </p>
<p>This is a site for info about unis, and we’re giving you info. It’s just not the info you wanted to hear.</p>
<p>Some really weird stuff on this thread.</p>
<p>Tuition is capped at a maximum of £9000 a year for UK/EU students. For an overseas student (and unless your parents, or you if over 21, have been paying income tax for the last 3 years in an EU country, you are an overseas student regardless of nationality) I don’t believe there is any limit.</p>
<p>So apparently in the US it’s ok to rate HYP over a random unknown community college in the US, but in the UK advising a well qualified student that they should aim above the lowest standard universities is snobbery. That is a massive double standard and born of the “American is the greatest and superior to all the world in ever aspect” mindset that is crippling the USA. Do you really believe that any BA from any American college is treated equally? Is that was the case, this entire site would not exist!</p>
<p>jpena - the universities you have chosen are similar to US community colleges or perhaps commuter schools. They are aimed at students who live at home (to save money or just because they don’t want to move). Their admissions requirements are very low and essentially this means they accept almost anyone who completes UK A-levels, which are vaguely the equivalent of APs in the US. Few people will have heard of these universities outside their local areas. For the amount of money you will be expected to pay as a foreign student I personally do not think they are not worth it. Boomting has given you a good list of other places you could consider.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/united-kingdom/1593506-undergrad-program-uk-grad-program-us.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/united-kingdom/1593506-undergrad-program-uk-grad-program-us.html</a></p>
<p>The situation being described by the OP is exactly as in post 4 in the the thread linked about by TheRealKEVP. But for some reason rejected “podunk” college is ok in the US, but snobbery in the UK. Massive double standard, massive stereotype.</p>
<p>Thank you to cupcake, boomting, you were both very helpful! Such a late reply, I know, but I completely forgot about this after I got a bit upset. I am currently in the Yale high school junior program, but still really want to study in the UK full time instead! I’m looking more closely at Uni of Bristol, St. Andrew’s, and Gloucestershire. Are these places more “on my level”, so to say? </p>
<p>Bristol and St Andrews are both fab unis and very much worth attending (though they are very different! Big well connected city vs small seaside village that’s hard to get out of), but Gloucestershire is crap and best avoided 
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<p>Well darn, because I am obsessed with the beauty of Gloucestershire!! Lol but, I guess I will have to look past it… Now I’m going to have to work harder to get perfect AP scores, yay!</p>
<p>Gloucestershire’s nice, but from Bristol you can get up there without too much difficulty, if you have access to a car (e.g. via <a href=“http://www.citycarclub.co.uk/”>http://www.citycarclub.co.uk/</a> ) or if you join a society that involves travel to Gloucestershire (e.g. <a href=“ubu.org.uk”>ubu.org.uk; ) </p>
<p>TBH Cheltenham and Gloucester aren’t that pretty, and Bristol is quite pretty even in terms of natural beauty, e.g. you’d be studying within walking distance of this <a href=“http://www.guide2bristol.com/uploads/news/large/010611094145--Avon%20Gorge%20Concerns%20raised%20over%20plans%20for%201%20million%20house%20in%20Bristol.jpg”>http://www.guide2bristol.com/uploads/news/large/010611094145--Avon%20Gorge%20Concerns%20raised%20over%20plans%20for%201%20million%20house%20in%20Bristol.jpg</a> and between the Stoke Bishop halls and uni, you’ve got 400 acres of parkland (known as the Downs) as well as an awful lot of lovely Georgian architecture (e.g. the tower in this photo is part of Bristol Uni, and it’s where you graduate from <a href=“http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/684636-wills-memorial-building-bristol.jpeg”>http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/684636-wills-memorial-building-bristol.jpeg</a> ) </p>
<p>Oh gosh I think I have tear! Bristol is really pretty! This is officially my dream uni!!</p>
<p>It isn’t that pretty? It has nice parts but it has some rather unlovely areas too. </p>
<p>Edinburgh has to be the prettiest place to study in the UK, the whole city is just gorgeous and it has beautiful countryside all around it. <a href=“http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/pictures/victoria_street_edinburgh_scotland_G3185.jpg”>http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/pictures/victoria_street_edinburgh_scotland_G3185.jpg</a> and <a href=“http://www.drummohr.org/images/photos/edinburgh.jpg”>http://www.drummohr.org/images/photos/edinburgh.jpg</a></p>
<p>Durham is very nice too, as is York and Bath. All lovely cities with good access to stunning countryside.</p>
<p>There are nice bits of Bristol and there are some god-awful bits of Bristol. However, the bits of Bristol that students tend to see (Clifton, Cotham, Redland, Centre) are the nice bits, so it’s not completely unrepresentative of what the OP would be seeing. I could show pictures of the rough bits like Hartcliffe <a href=“http://li.zoocdn.com/fb5e014ae53bf43c3fbd49a7a91a3c280931e6d6_645_430.jpg”>http://li.zoocdn.com/fb5e014ae53bf43c3fbd49a7a91a3c280931e6d6_645_430.jpg</a> or St Pauls <a href=“Panoramio is no longer available”>Panoramio is no longer available; but there’s really very little point as she won’t have any reason to go there. </p>
<p>There are, however, pretty bits and ugly bits of all cities in the UK (except Coventry - pretty much all of Coventry is grim after the Luftwaffe unilaterally unleashed their overnight urban redevelopment plan upon it!) </p>
<p>No place can be perfect! Pretty much all of houston/America is worse than those pictures. I feel like everything here was built in the 80s and is ugly! The second one is actually pretty interesting looking with all the graffiti! Lol </p>