Record Number of U.S. Students Apply for U.K. Undergraduate Degrees For 2025-26

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Interesting article in the ECONOMIST from yesterday:

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/15/britain-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-lure-american-talent

[Anonymous]

And we keep losing bright professors….oh well

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Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

Mobile didn't have the mobility, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

Mobile didn't have the mobility, huh?

I hope you are just being sarcastic with mobility/mobile….

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

Mobile didn't have the mobility, huh?

I hope you are just being sarcastic with mobility/mobile….

I don’t think you understand what sarcasm means. It’s ironic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

Interesting, thought they hired mostly master’s graduates and EU passport holders. Good for him!

[Anonymous]

Excellent outcome. My friends son just graduated from Stanford and also just started at airbus, also in Toulouse. American kid. Paid full freight at Stanford - which wasn’t pocket change for my friend

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprising, more transparent process, greater focus on academic achievement over ECs, greater value for the money and a host of outstanding institutions to apply to, expect the numbers to continue to grow.

Yes but none of those are really the main reason American students are now considering universities abroad. I’m going to go with the assault of freedom of speech and vast cuts to research as main reasons.

There has always been an assault on freedom of speech on college campus, it's just going the other way these days.

It's the attack on the institutional wealth and the high level of drama. The primary advantage American universities had over universities around the world had always been money and that is being undermined. If the money goes away, so does the faculty, the research and pretty much everything else that makes American universities better than other global universities

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I think the main reason is money.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just graduated from Bristol with an Eng degree. We spent 85k pounds. In today’s $ that is $114k. We spent less than that since the exchange rate was more favorable last 3 years. But use today’s exchange rate.

$114k Dollars in Tuition.
$40k dollars in Room/Board (1st yr at Uni, then off campus)
$7.5k Dollars in travel to US (twice a year x 3 years)
$3.5k in Healthcare
$700k Visa/etc
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$165k all in. We just ran the numbers last week. (We actually spent $146k due to earlier exchange rate)

Sorry, but I will take that in heartbeat over any of the schools he got in the US (OOS expensive and Private) that were all MORE than $45k Per year all in. MUCH MORE.

He has a job lined up with Airbus. So far so good.

Congratulations, what a successful story! Does this job require French fluency? Curious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UIUC - OOS and CMU were his best options for Mechanical Engineering.

Is he working for Airbus in the US?

No. At HQ and main manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. He was offered an opportunity to move to Mobile, AL where they make the A220. But he felt like his mobility would be affected moving away from the main research and design facility.

Interesting, thought they hired mostly master’s graduates and EU passport holders. Good for him!

He does have a EU passport throuhg his great grandfather (Italy) way before the new passport restrictions took place. He doesnt speak Italian.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son just graduated from Bristol with an Eng degree. We spent 85k pounds. In today’s $ that is $114k. We spent less than that since the exchange rate was more favorable last 3 years. But use today’s exchange rate.

$114k Dollars in Tuition.
$40k dollars in Room/Board (1st yr at Uni, then off campus)
$7.5k Dollars in travel to US (twice a year x 3 years)
$3.5k in Healthcare
$700k Visa/etc
___________
$165k all in. We just ran the numbers last week. (We actually spent $146k due to earlier exchange rate)

Sorry, but I will take that in heartbeat over any of the schools he got in the US (OOS expensive and Private) that were all MORE than $45k Per year all in. MUCH MORE.

He has a job lined up with Airbus. So far so good.

Congratulations, what a successful story! Does this job require French fluency? Curious.

No. The “official” language at Airbus is English. From what he has told me after his orientation is that most teams are multinational to begin with. That is Airbus. In his engineering team there are people from all over Europe and they all communicate in English.

[Anonymous]

Another article form the Financial Times on the subject from Yesterday:

https://www.ft.com/content/c074645f-5d6c-446d-bcab-b1ff2fa911f9