One UCAS application with up to five choices gets you into undergraduate study at almost every UK university, including the 24 Russell Group members such as Oxford and Cambridge. Since Brexit, EU citizens count as international students unless they are Irish or have settled or pre-settled status, and a Student visa lets you work up to 20 hours a week in term time. See the deadlines, fees and visa funds you need.
Since Brexit, the United Kingdom is part of neither the EU nor the European Economic Area and has no profile on the Study in Europe portal. For students this means one thing: unless you are an Irish citizen or have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, you are an international student – and that now includes EU citizens.
Degrees are offered by universities and colleges. The country is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and each of them partly has its own rules on student funding – which is why fees for local students differ from region to region.
The best-known institutions are the research universities of the Russell Group – it has 24 members, including Oxford and Cambridge. For almost all universities you apply for undergraduate programmes through one system – UCAS (see: Admission).
Universities in the United Kingdom – profiles
British universities
Colleges in the United Kingdom
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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