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 [...]
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High school students in the United Kingdom face similar concerns regarding costs as do their peers in the United States. Many select schools close to home just to minimize the overall price of their higher education. This raises special concerns for some disciplines like physics which are not generally taught at regional colleges and universities.
Of [...]
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The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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Although Oxford and Cambridge are among the very oldest of the world’s universities, they are still relatively new to the business of fundraising. Such efforts weren’t necessary in the past because of strong government support that kept the price of attendance down, but the last two decades have seen significant erosion of taxpayer funding.
Rising to [...]
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If you’re looking for evidence that the world has truly become a much smaller place, consider this. Oxford University’s Chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, has gone to India to recruit students for his school, something that has become necessary because of intense competition between Oxbridge and the Ivy League. I guess the British Empire has truly [...]
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Yes, there’s now someone who has set himself up as an application consultant for high school students wanting to attend Oxbridge in the UK. For 850 poiunds, you get to spend a weekend at an English manor house for the weekend and work on your interviewing skills. Needless to say, the admissions people at Oxford [...]
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Are elite American universities becoming more attractive to top flight British students than are Oxford and Cambridge? Some recent reports seem to suggest that they are. For example, the number of British students applying to Yale and Harvard has double over the last decade. One reason given for this increase is more favorable financial aide [...]
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