US 2011 STUDYING ABROAD: US IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
Think US universities are elitist and prohibitively expensive? Think again. The States can open doors, says Chris Alden.
The Telegraph
Posted May 23, 2011
Which country is the number one foreign-study destination? A glance at the upper reaches of the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings is all you need to find your answer. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech): there are no fewer than seven US institutions in the top 10, and 21 in the top 30, so it‟s little wonder that the US is popular with British students.
“I think students realise that going to the US says something about them,” says Lauren Welch, head of advising at the Fulbright Commission, which represents American universities in the UK. In a recent survey, 91 per cent of British students cited the quality of universities as a reason for choosing the US.
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