Thursday, August 9, 2007

Applications to UK Universities

By and large the physical process of applying to British (I use the term interchangeably with "UK") universities is a centralised online process.

The first port of call is invariably the UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) at www.ucas.com. UCAS currently deals with undergraduate admissions, but they handle postgraduate (US: graduate) applications for certain subjects. Their Customer Service Unit is reachable by phone at +44 870 1122211. They are usually very helpful and friendly (except when various deadlines create temporary surges of applications).

Applying through UCAS is what you have to do. But the real application process starts long before that. More on that later ...

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