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Uni in the USA
The UK Guide to US Universities

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Paperback, 250 pages
Published
United Kingdom, 17 January 2005

Now that UK students are being asked to pay large sums for a university education whose quality has been compromised by decades of underfunding, more and more of them are looking to the USA. Enquiries to the US Educational Advisory Service are up seven-fold over the last two years, to over one million per annum. If you are having to pay, students reason, why not buy the best? In November 2004 the Top 200 World University Rankings in The Times Higher Educational Supplement listed seven American universities amongst the top ten. (Oxford and Cambridge being two of the other three). If you look down the rankings as far as Newcastle - well regarded in the UK - you have passed another 47 American universities on the way. While tuition fees at American universities are undeniably high, the quality of teaching and facilities is there to match it. Many US universities are willing to offer substantial financial support to British students. A first rate education abroad is becoming an ever more achievable option, whatever your background and the state of your finances.
UNI in the USA has been produced by the team that publish the highly respected Good Schools Guide, and employs their familiar, highly readable style. It combines the personal experience and eloquence of Alice Fishburn, a British student in her final year at Harvard, with Anthony Nemecek's many years of experience as Director of the US Educational Advisory Service in the UK. Stephen Baldock, who until a few months ago was High Master of St Paul's School London, adds his views, and cartoonist Tim Sanders illustrates the book.

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Now that UK students are being asked to pay large sums for a university education whose quality has been compromised by decades of underfunding, more and more of them are looking to the USA. Enquiries to the US Educational Advisory Service are up seven-fold over the last two years, to over one million per annum. If you are having to pay, students reason, why not buy the best? In November 2004 the Top 200 World University Rankings in The Times Higher Educational Supplement listed seven American universities amongst the top ten. (Oxford and Cambridge being two of the other three). If you look down the rankings as far as Newcastle - well regarded in the UK - you have passed another 47 American universities on the way. While tuition fees at American universities are undeniably high, the quality of teaching and facilities is there to match it. Many US universities are willing to offer substantial financial support to British students. A first rate education abroad is becoming an ever more achievable option, whatever your background and the state of your finances.
UNI in the USA has been produced by the team that publish the highly respected Good Schools Guide, and employs their familiar, highly readable style. It combines the personal experience and eloquence of Alice Fishburn, a British student in her final year at Harvard, with Anthony Nemecek's many years of experience as Director of the US Educational Advisory Service in the UK. Stephen Baldock, who until a few months ago was High Master of St Paul's School London, adds his views, and cartoonist Tim Sanders illustrates the book.

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9780953265978
ISBN
0953265978
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21 x 15 centimeters (0.29 kg)

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About this book About the EAS About The Good Schools Guide Contribute to Uni in the USA Foreword Some Useful Background Info Amherst Brown California (UCLA and Berkeley) Columbia and Barnard Cornell Dartmouth Duke Georgetown Harvard Johns Hopkins MIT Northwestern NYU Oberlin Princeton Stanford Tufts University of Michigan University of Virginia (UVA) University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Vanderbilt Williams Yale On Your Way - Almost! Glossary Reference Section

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Alice Fishburn is a British student in her final year at Harvard. Co-writer Anthony Nemecek is Director of the US Educational Advisory Service in the UK. Stephen Baldock was High Master of St Paul's School in London 1992 - 2004.

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