The US’s ‘Big Apple’ is home to the Ivy League’s Columbia University, and leading universities such as  New York University (NYU) and Fordham University just to name a few.

From Harvard to Boston University, Northeastern to Boston College, Boston Massachusetts and its surrounding areas are home to some of the best universities in the US and the world.

Los Angeles on the US’s sunny west coast boasts some of the best universities in the country including UCLA, Caltech and the University of Southern California.

The US’s Windy City is a hub of academic excellence playing home to the highly-ranked University of Chicago and nearby Northwestern (located in Evanston - a mere 25kms from Chicago). 

The UK’s London is a hub of intellectual activity and home to some of the best universities the UK has to offer including UCL, LSE, King’s College London and Imperial,  just to name a few.

The University of Oxford’s reputation of excellence speaks for itself while Oxford Brookes University is also an attraction for many international students - it’s motto, ‘Excellence in Diversity’.

Cambridge is home to the highly ranked University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University - one of the largest in the East of England with around 39,400 students.

The Scottish capital is home to the world Top 20 University of Edinburgh - the city itself recently ranking as the UK’s second-best student city after London for the fifth year in a row.

From École Polytechnique to Sciences Po or the École Normale Supérieure, Paris is home to some of the most prestigious and respected institutions in Europe.

Ranked in the world Top 20, ETH Zurich is just one of several top universities in the beautiful Swiss city with others including Switzerland’s largest university, the University of Zurich.

From the University of Amsterdam to the nearby Delft University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this vibrant Dutch city is a hub of educational and cultural opportunity.

This cosmopolitan city is home to some of the best universities in Europe including the private Bocconi University and Politecnico Milano, the largest tech university in Italy.