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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My niece is targeting colleges in the UK due to the cost savings.  Depending on the college, the tuition can be much cheaper than the U.S. even when adjusting for COL.  Also, for some degrees, she is able to combine/shorten number of years in school.[/quote]

OP here - that makes sense. Thanks. [/quote]

+1. small liberal college in the US just accepted kid for $80K total  a year. St Andrews for about $44K total (locked for 4 years) and Edinburg is even less than that. guess which we are flying to visit after being accepted. oh, as a bonus kid may also have a better chance to complete college experience without crossing path with some deranged idiot with an AR-15 who decided to go down in flames bringing some students with him. we considered also a great school for my kid's field of interest in the Netherland, tuition there would have been like 2000 euro.

cost of college in the US is beyond nuts and the idea that you can only study in the US because, other than Oxbridge, schools abroad are not that highly retated, as a poster seems to suggest, is dumb.  so many kids in my kid's 12th grade class in DCPS who applied, and got accepted by, schools abroad, mostly England, Scotland, Netherlands, Australia are applying abroad [/quote]

Actually your costs are $57,720 not including airfare and hotels plus same for relatives going over to set up the dorm and for graduation. You didn’t include all the costs in excess of tuition.  After all, your $80k cite is “ all in”.   So
Let’s compare apples and oranges.And good luck with the fact that Americans, especially women, are treated as second rate. How about the Housing crisis at St Andrews. And how about that  massive drinking culture? Your kid is far more apt to return to the states a victim of date rape and an alcoholic . And without a job because the careers office there doesn’t reach to wall street[/quote]

Even if we assume $57k is true, that's still $23k less than $80k

Did your kid have a bad experience at St Andrews? I'm very sorry for what seems like traumatic stuff based on what your comment implies, but that experience simply is not universal. St Andrews is top in the UK for student experience.

Who says women and Americans are treated as second rate? In my personal experience I have seen no evidence of this. Again, an anomaly is not universal. The housing costs are less than DC, less than NYC, etc. Alcoholic? really? Drinking is more prevalent, but more controlled, supervised in pub/club settings, and because it's not happening in a frat basement. I've heard way more horror stories of heads smashed and crashed cars and stomachs pumped from drinking in American schools than I have heard from St Andrews.

"And without a job because the careers office there doesn’t reach to wall street"
Hahaha please.  :D 
If your DC wants a job on Wall Street, yourschool's career center isn't going to be the defining factor.
Being well-connected is one way. But the harder way is to start early—your DC should be doing spring insight and other events run by firms from year 1 and year 2. Taking on analyst roles in student funds or investment societies from y1/y2. Ideally get some sort of finance internship or role for summer after y2, and then network and apply for summer analyst roles for penultimate summer. Then get the return offer—not many other easy ways to get a desired role on Wall St. It's not the fault of the St Andrews career center that your DC doesn't work on Wall St

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