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    69 English-taught universities in United Kingdom, offering 8,756 bachelor's programs to international students.

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    City St George's, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    64 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,300 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$70K

    Professional London, studied From the inside

    Birkbeck, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    241 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,500 · $25K
    Total (3 yrs)$75K

    Everyone here already has a job already. Come for flexible courses and discussions from the POV of experienced adults.

    University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    33 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£29,052 · $39K
    Total (3 yrs)$118K

    Medieval beef with Oxford gave rise to this greatest rival, and the only other place you can get a pure collegiate-system education

    Brunel University London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    33 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,400 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$70K

    More technical than the west London postcode suggests

    University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    344 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£32,000 · $43K
    Total (3 yrs)$129K

    A university founded on admit ting anyone regardless of religion, that's kept Jeremy Bentham's preserved body in a cabinet ever since

    Middlesex University

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    84 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,300 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$70K

    Affordable, balanced Middlesex offers an international campus network that's better than its domestic ranking

    London South Bank University

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    136 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,400 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$70K

    London's practical side, where you can mix with commuters and integrate into the job market

    University of Salford

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    71 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£14,400 · $19K
    Total (3 yrs)$58K

    A practically oriented Greater Manchester university with a media campus that houses the BBC, ITV, and some of Britain's best-connected media programs

    University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    401 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,500 · $35K
    Total (3 yrs)$104K

    A busy university in England's busiest cruise port, where the electronics faculty helped build the internet and the oceanography institute has instruments on the seafloor

    Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    119 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,250 · $34K
    Total (3 yrs)$102K

    A Russell Group university in the East End with a medical school that has been training London's doctors since 1123

    King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    125 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£29,472 · $40K
    Total (3 yrs)$120K

    UCL's main rival for the student who wants London AND feel like they're at a "real" university

    University of Liverpool

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    248 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,100 · $32K
    Total (3 yrs)$97K

    Russell Group medicine, vet school, and engineering in the city that won't let you study on a Friday night

    Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: A-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    56 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£35,500 · $48K
    Total (3 yrs)$143K

    Where STEM gets serious, and University Challenge duels are won

    Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    148 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£26,700 · $36K
    Total (3 yrs)$108K

    Plate glass university with a management school that turns heads thirty minutes from the Lake District

    De Montfort University

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: A-
    113 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£16,800 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$68K

    The approachable city uni named after the man who invented parliament in 1265

    University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    32 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£20,200 · $27K
    Total (3 yrs)$82K

    The space science faculty has instruments on Mars and the genetics department invented DNA fingerprinting

    University of East London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B-Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    92 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£16,020 · $22K
    Total (3 yrs)$65K

    A London basecamp wehere the Docklands is a core selling point

    University of Sunderland

    Sunderland, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    63 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,500 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    Sandwiched between Newcastle and Durham. Cheaper than both.

    Aston University

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    65 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£15,800 · $21K
    Total (3 yrs)$64K

    Birmingham's business and engineering university, serious about placement years

    University of Bedfordshire

    Luton, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B-Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    35 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£16,900 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$68K

    A commuter-belt university for Americans who want a lower-cost UK degree, a highly international student body, and easy access to London without living in London

    Newcastle University

    Newcastle, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    57 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,500 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$99K

    A Russell Group university in the city that has more bars per square mile than anywhere in England

    University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    219 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,700 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$100K

    Russell Group credibility. A city uni with an actual campus, ducks and lawns included.

    Bangor University

    Bangor, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    117 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,000 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$73K

    Small, Welsh, and genuinely excellent in ocean sciences and psychology

    University of Westminster

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    80 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,600 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$72K

    Serious media, fashion, and film programs on Regent Street

    University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    76 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£19,300 · $26K
    Total (3 yrs)$78K

    A social-sciences-strong university in a medieval cathedral city, closer to Paris by train than to Manchester

    University of Huddersfield

    Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    183 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,600 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    You won't find inspiring architecture, ancient traditions, or an elite reputation here. You will get practical, employable skills.

    University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    209 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£21,525 · $29K
    Total (3 yrs)$87K

    The politics department has been picking arguments with power since 1964

    Keele University

    Keele, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    162 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,700 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    A Victorian manor house, 600 acres of Staffordshire countryside, and the proximity of Stoke-on-Trent

    University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    180 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,800 · $35K
    Total (3 yrs)$104K

    Calm, clever, collegiate life on a lake in one of the most charming historical cities in the world

    University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    311 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£26,640 · $36K
    Total (3 yrs)$108K

    Joseph Chamberlain wanted a great university for a great industrial city. Here it is.

    University of Greenwich

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    114 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,975 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$73K

    An architecturally spectacular nautical campus and uni town...next to London

    Swansea University

    Swansea, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    203 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£19,950 · $27K
    Total (3 yrs)$81K

    A Welsh research university that moved to a bay campus on Swansea Bay and has been winning that decision ever since

    University of South Wales

    Pontypridd, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: A-
    74 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£15,850 · $21K
    Total (3 yrs)$64K

    Broad access, real specialisms, strong South Wales value

    University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    161 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,000 · $32K
    Total (3 yrs)$97K

    Half campus. Half city. One foot in each.

    London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    46 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£28,900 · $39K
    Total (3 yrs)$117K

    The world's political power play for future Prime Ministers of their home countries

    Nottingham Trent University

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    83 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,950 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$72K

    This city already has a Russell Group institution, and Nottingham Trent isn't trying to compete.

    Cardiff University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    84 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,700 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$100K

    Russell Group without the Drama

    University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    270 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,800 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$100K

    One of the world's most decorated creative writing programs and serious depth in environmental sciences

    Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    52 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£26,500 · $36K
    Total (3 yrs)$107K

    Not actually the realm of students who couldn't get into Oxford or Cambridge

    University of Hertfordshire

    Hatfield, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B-Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    121 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,450 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$70K

    Aviation and pharmaceuticals in a town that exists specifically because the A1 goes through it

    University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    48 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£43,600 · $59K
    Total (3 yrs)$178K

    Where a single tutorial with one professor and one question can occupy an entire week

    University of Roehampton

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: B+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    70 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,628 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    London opportunities without all the pesky pavement

    University of Brighton

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    170 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,796 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$72K

    A post-92 creative and professional university in the UK's most reliably interesting seaside city

    University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    142 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£31,620 · $43K
    Total (3 yrs)$128K

    A Russell Group research university with world-class economics, mathematics, and business — named after a county it technically isn't in

    University of Lincoln

    Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    120 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,600 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    Upwardly mobile Lincoln offers a solid education in a waterfront, medieval cathedral city

    University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    Overall: B+Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    130 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£23,500 · $32K
    Total (3 yrs)$95K

    On the South Downs above Brighton, where the development studies institute is one of the most globally respected of its kind, you'll find a campus designed by a man who also built Coventry Cathedral

    Cardiff Metropolitan University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B-Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    93 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£16,000 · $22K
    Total (3 yrs)$65K

    Art-business creative community that's not Cardiff University

    Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    47 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,750 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$72K

    Liverpool's other university, which is an unfair label

    Birmingham City University

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    112 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,570 · $25K
    Total (3 yrs)$75K

    With a foot in both creative flair, like the Birmingham Conservatoire, and big-city practicality

    Royal Veterinary College

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    7 programs5-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£19,810 · $27K
    Total (5 yrs)$133K

    The oldest and best veterinary school in the English-speaking world

    Canterbury Christ Church University

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B+Cost: B+Tuition: A-
    197 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,000 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$69K

    Historic charm with a Church of England (and service) foundation

    University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    328 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,850 · $35K
    Total (3 yrs)$105K

    England's answer to the "stsate school" with campus charm just outside London

    University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    177 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,500 · $34K
    Total (3 yrs)$103K

    England's academically elite party school in a truly cool city

    Loughborough University

    Loughborough, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    89 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,700 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$100K

    The university that takes sport so seriously it has produced more Olympic medals than most countries, located in a town that has not otherwise troubled the history books

    University of Surrey

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    18 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£24,300 · $33K
    Total (3 yrs)$98K

    Orderly, emoloyable, and easy to underestimate

    Manchester Metropolitan University

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    153 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£21,000 · $27K
    Total (3 yrs)$80K

    A modern university with a major-city advantage

    Bournemouth University

    Bournemouth, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    92 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,700 · $25K
    Total (3 yrs)$75K

    A south coast animation hub built for film and media nerds

    University of Hull

    Hull, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B+Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    94 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,500 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    Your unpretentious friend with cool librarian vibes in a real student neighborhood

    Sheffield Hallam University

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    128 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,000 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$73K

    Not a mini-University of Sheffield

    University of Plymouth

    Plymouth, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B+
    177 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£18,650 · $25K
    Total (3 yrs)$75K

    Britain's ocean city, with marine science programs that have the Atlantic Ocean as their primary research instrument

    Goldsmiths, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    70 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£22,000 · $30K
    Total (3 yrs)$89K

    Artist Damien Hirst submerged sharks in formalin. First, he went to Goldsmiths.

    SOAS University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    43 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£25,320 · $34K
    Total (3 yrs)$102K

    A century-old specialist institution in Bloomsbury that covers more languages, more non-Western legal systems, and more African and Asian cultural scholarship than any comparable institution in Europe

    Aberystwyth University

    Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: B+Tuition: B-
    132 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£21,875 · $29K
    Total (3 yrs)$88K

    The first university in Wales, sitting on the Irish Sea

    University of Bradford

    Bradford, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B+Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    53 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£20,538 · $28K
    Total (3 yrs)$83K

    Career-facing Yorkshire belle with standout pharmacy and peace studies programs

    Northumbria University

    Newcastle, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    23 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£20,950 · $28K
    Total (3 yrs)$85K

    Northumbria is what happens when a modern, career-focused university happens to be in a city students really love

    Staffordshire University

    Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    77 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,085 · $23K
    Total (3 yrs)$69K

    The Creative Heartland for Gamers and Techies

    University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    140 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£26,700 · $36K
    Total (3 yrs)$108K

    A 1960s plate glass university on a hill above one of England's most beautiful Georgian cities

    Ulster University

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: B-Cost: B+Tuition: B+
    154 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£17,490 · $24K
    Total (3 yrs)$71K

    A brand new city center campus in a city that's reaping the benefits of a peace dividend just starting to pay off

    Royal Holloway University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    Overall: B-Academic: A-Cost: A-Tuition: B-
    367 programs3-yr degree
    Tuition / yr£26,800 · $36K
    Total (3 yrs)$108K

    You sleep in a castle. The feline ghost of the school's founder wanders the woods.