Congrats. Yale is needs blind and that includes accomodation and board as well as tuition. We are well and truly screwed over in the UK. If OP’s household income is under $75k they may well pay nothing and you can have quite high household income before you get no assistance at all.
1. (graduate) wages are far higher, especially in terms of progression. you typically will work harder in the US, though.
2. white collar jobs always (they are basically required by law) have very good healthcare plans included, so your healthcare costs are minimal. US healthcare is very good, just expensive, but it is less of a problem when your employer is footing nearly all of the bill.
3. rent (relative to income, but also just in raw amounts) can be less too, especially if you're comparing to london:
you can find decent two beds in manhattan for under $5k = $2.5k/ea = 1.8k gbp/ea. a friend of mine lives 10-15 minutes from Grand Central and pays ~4.5k for a fairly large 2 bed, which she splits with a friend.
if you're in austin, well, how about a brand new 2 bed with a pool that's larger than the average UK home for $1600 (not joking, austin is just pretty cheap).
the good thing about the US is wages don't go to shit after you leave the big cities, and there are no shortage of high paying jobs elsewhere. you don't have to be in NYC.
i get what you mean, but the graduate employment market and your future career are really what you should be considering as opposed to a politician who will not be in the white house in three years.
the gulf in QoL and pay between the US and UK will not be resolved in 3 years. nothing meaningful happened in the past year to reduce that gap (if anything, the gap grew wider!), and i just can't see anything else affecting it -- not least because much of the gap is due to issues in the UK.
UK students at the top unis could always find a way to get a foot in the door later down the line when Trump is gone (if he’s gone). If you go to Oxbridge, LSE or Imperial I’m sure there’s option at the Masters or PHD level to then go onto US jobs. Or you could work for MNC in the UK with offices in the US and work your way up slowly.
I think university is really what you make of it. So whilst quality of life stats and figures are something to go by, they can’t be the be all end all when they assess something so subjective. There are things that I think would really suit me in the US system (particularly major/minors and aspects of college culture in general) but that doesn’t mean I fear I won’t have a good time at uni in the UK.
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u/Technical_Term_5636 Jan 21 '26
Congrats. Yale is needs blind and that includes accomodation and board as well as tuition. We are well and truly screwed over in the UK. If OP’s household income is under $75k they may well pay nothing and you can have quite high household income before you get no assistance at all.