Study abroad: The world is your classroom

After thumbing through countless prospectuses, working out predicted A-levels and totting up the price of university, British students are picking up their passports and searching farther afield for an education.

Since 2010, there has been an explosion in English-taught degree programmes in continental Europe. Of the top 1,000 universities in the world offering 36,500 English-taught programmes, 75 per cent are outside Britain.

A 2014 report commissioned by the Sutton Trust found UK students will graduate owing about £44,000. Harry Wetton’s last semester at Western New Mexico University cost just $62.

Harry said: “I knew I didn’t want to go to university in the UK… I wanted to go to the US on a golf scholarship where I could continue my education, as well as play golf in the sunshine every day.”

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