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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you not including Oxbridge?[/quote]

Oxford and Cambridge are prestigious enough for anyone capable to want to apply.  I'm wondering, hypothetically, why a student may decide to apply to King's College, for example, if they can also get into NYU.  [/quote]
KCL over NYU? Plenty of reasons: you prefer London over NYC. You want to dive deep on, day, War Studies—a KCL specialty—for three years rather than taking whatever non-major classes NYU makes kids take. A unique, storied UK university rather than NYU—a former commuter school turned McDonalds-franchise-esque-chain-university with copy and paste branches in China, Abu Dhabi, etc. Not that NYU isn't great, it is, but its expansion feels awfully corporate, no?

But more generally:

- REAL international experience—this is priceless and can't be replicated by study abroad programs from American schools. The chance to see the US through a different lens and gain greater international versatility
- Even at international tuition rates, you're paying much less for British Universities than for the United States. 
- The more independent UK uni experience fosters personal development and maturation—kids learn to figure things out for themselves, rather than being coddled like at American schools. (On this note, if your kid isn't independent and would benefit from closer supervision, don't send them to the UK!). No RAs watching you 24/7, no hiding alcohol or parties or whatever from campus security. Kids learn to pace themselves. 
- No frats or sororities, the social atmosphere is more grown up
- Accessibility to play sports for the university at a competitive level (whereas US unis essentially run semi-pro sports teams)
- Who's to say an American wouldn't like a particular UK Uni (Oxbridge, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, Exeter) over their American choices?

Economically, the UK seems to be a bit of a sinking ship at the moment. I hope those trends will be reversed. But there are still great merits to studying in the UK, and the country still has a lot to offer international students[/quote]

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