Topic : University education in the US and the UK: cost and selection.

It’s a well known fact that higher education is nowadays an essential instrument tu ensure onself a bright future. Over decades, millions of teenagers understood the idea and were smart enough to enroll in a university after high school. China, Japan, North America and Europe shelter the largest tank of universities, giving opportuny of mobility to those students who are willing to cross the oceans for the chance to get in the most coveted Universities. The popular Shangai Academic Ranking of World Universities published in 2010, confirms that the anglo-saxons are still the most prestigious as they lead by far in term of academic and research performances, specially in the United Kingdom and the United states while their fellows in France are still behind in the rankings. We still can not put aside the fact that every good thing has a price and the least we could say is that higher education in the latter anglo-saxons countries is not affordable for many students.
This may urge one to question the University system in the US and the UK. What are its advantages and its drawbacks ? Is it worth putting a lifetime savings in this kind of universities ? Would it be a judious thing to adopt a similar system in France ?
In the first instance we’ll study the essentials of the University system in the UK and the United States, explaining the selection process through which a student go in order to get in university, then will develop in the second part the causes and the consequences of the expensive cost of third cycle education in both countries and the possible solutions that alleviates the struggle of parents and students to cover university tuition fees.

On the one hand, the United Kingdom have been the whom of highly prestigious colleges for centuries, dragging the most ambitious, and the most clever students of all countries. Today, no one can say he’s never heard of Oxfbrige