college help: Is college/university in the UK like the ones in the US? - Help.com

What?? You dont have to pay for your tuition?? They are ripping us off here in the states!

skyy wrote:
What?? You dont have to pay for your tuition?? They are ripping us off here in the states!

Lmao, are they…

You have to pay £3000 a year UK, but for international students its usually around £10000 a year. Double those figures to get dollars and its by no means free! Newcastles nice, go there :D!

Lizzy08 wrote:
You have to pay £3000 a year UK, but for international students its usually around £10000 a year. Double those figures to get dollars and its by no means free! Newcastles nice, go there :D!

Doubled, I’d get $20,000 a year in the UK. I paid $25,000 a SEMESTER in my old school.

In Ireland we pay a grand total of €900 a year which I think equates to about $1500. The prices are set to increase next year though and they are trying to bring in fees, the money we pay now is simply registration fees.

Wow i didnt pay that much but its not cheap.. I think my tuition is 1500 im not sure though

skyy wrote:
Wow i didnt pay that much but its not cheap.. I think my tuition is 1500 im not sure though

I went to an overpriced, overrated private school in NY, when I could have gone to a community school for free. -_-

thanks for the info on tuition, but i was looking more for the social side…are the ones in the UK like how u see the stereotypical US ones in the movies?

i went to a grammar school, which is kinda not a state school bt not private either. its free untill aged 18. then university. its just over £3000 a year. you have student loans and stuff. there arent reali frats or anything. theres clubs and societies but i dnt know many people who are in any of them. people are jus looking to get a degree and go out to bars etc. its not like the stereotypical uni’s in the movies. school from 11 to 16 is compulsory and then 16 to 18 is alevels really and we were a uniform in school. only when you go to university you really have parties and stuff. there isnt really groups of people in university. in school you sort of have the popular kids (or they think they are) and then everyone else is normal and you just talk to your friends etc. i duno if im any help?

claire xx