Top Tier Insider

Just when it seems that admissions to the Ivy League couldn’t get any more competitive, it looks like top English students are beginning to look across the Atlantic for educational opportunities. Why? The simple answer appears to be the superior financial aid packages being offered by the best U.S. schools.

With the decline in public support to Oxbridge universities, students are finding that it’s actually more economical to pursue their university studies in the United States. The recent announcement of significant enhancement of financial aid packages at the schools like Harvard and Yale, as well as the extension of need-based aid to international students will only highlight these differences.

Will Oxford and Cambridge be able to raise sufficient endowment funding to compete effectively for the best English students in the years to come? Certainly the leadership of these schools clearly understands the threat, and as you’ve read here they have started to respond. Look for the competition to increase over the next few years as these great universities respond to the challenge…..

For more about this see… More top English students opt for American universities - Times Online

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