Top 1000 · United Kingdom

Top 1000 in United Kingdom

10 routes, and we can submit every one of them today. A route belongs here when the institution awarding the degree sits inside the QS 2027 top 1000 — not when the college you enrol at first does.

The cheapest of them is University of Birmingham at £35,396 for the first year, tuition and living together. Reviewed 2026-09-24.

Every route, by rank

35University of EdinburghOpenFree application

United Kingdom

£27,300 (≈ $37,000) tuition, first year£40,647 (≈ $55,000) with living costs

One programme, and three conditions on it. It is a Master of Laws by Research, so it suits a law graduate and nobody else. It is not currently available to Tajik nationals through this channel. And it states a FOUR-YEAR bachelor's as the minimum, so a three-year degree does not qualify.

What you need: A completed four-year bachelor's degree at 75%, in law. A three-year bachelor's returns nothing here
English: IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL 100 — the highest bar in our catalogue
Intakes: Open now: January 2027

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

37King's College LondonOpenElite concierge

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=40The University of ManchesterOpenElite concierge

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

57University of BristolOpenElite concierge

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

This is direct degree entry, which needs a completed Grade 12 or an accepted foundation year — an eleven-year certificate is not enough on its own. Our separate Bristol foundation route is not yet open.

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=68University of BirminghamOpenFree application

United Kingdom

£23,390 (≈ $31,700) tuition, first year£35,396 (≈ $47,900) with living costs

Master's only — there is no undergraduate route at this campus at either Grade 11 or Grade 12, and school-leavers use the Birmingham foundation pathways instead. Every open programme states a FOUR-YEAR bachelor's degree as the minimum, so a three-year degree does not qualify here.

What you need: A completed four-year bachelor's degree at 75%. A three-year bachelor's returns no eligible programmes at this campus
English: IELTS 6.5, TOEFL 88 or PTE 67
Intakes: Open now: January 2027

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=97University of NottinghamOpenFree application

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

Two portal readings disagree about this route. A check on 17 August recorded it open; a per-school query on 18 August, for a student with an eleven-year certificate, returned no programmes at all — with or without the intake filter. Until we know which reading holds, we will not tell anyone they can apply here.

What you need: Direct undergraduate and postgraduate entry both open; students short of twelve years of schooling normally route through the university's international college first
English: Set per programme — confirm the current band with us
Intakes: September 2026, October 2026, February 2027

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=111University of Southampton — HighfieldOpenFree application

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

What you need: Direct entry with twelve years of schooling or a completed foundation; students short of that route via the ONCAMPUS centre or the Malaysia campus
English: Set per programme — confirm the current band with us
Intakes: September 2026

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=179Cardiff UniversityOpenFree application

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

=196University of ReadingOpenFree application

United Kingdom

Programmes from GBP 23,850 undergraduate and GBP 18,650 postgraduate — the lowest figure on an open record on the partner portal (2026-08-19), not an annual tuition

Intakes: Open now: January 2027 (undergraduate), September 2026 (postgraduate) — the earliest open intakes on the partner portal

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

203Loughborough UniversityOpenFree application

United Kingdom

Cost not read off the page yet

Before the visa

Government visa charge £558

Where else you could go at this level

The same tier in the other countries we can reach. Where a country is missing, we hold no route into it at this height — not that none exists.

Australia 10 Malaysia 10 Canada 6 United States 5 China 3 Germany 3 Hong Kong (SAR) 3 Ireland 3 Italy 3 Netherlands 3 New Zealand 3 Sweden 3 South Korea 2 Denmark 1

Or move the bar: Top 100, Top 300, Top 500. Everything we know about studying in United Kingdom — visas, costs, funding — is on the United Kingdom page.

Which of these would take you

Send your certificate, your grades and your budget. We will tell you which of these United Kingdom routes are realistic and which are not worth the application fee in your case.