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Career-based qualifications   

The UK provides a comprehensive choice of work-related qualifications in a wide variety of occupational categories, and at several different levels

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MBA degrees

A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a specialist business qualification. There are a large number of MBA courses available in the UK

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Choosing an institution

All UK educational institutions have their different strengths. Your job is to find the school, college or university whose strengths most closely match all your needs

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Choosing a course

When choosing a course, you must think about two things. Firstly, what level of course you are looking for and, secondly, what subjects you are interested in

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Applying for courses

In coming to the UK to study, you will be joining around 400,000 other international students from 180 different countries who have decided to take advantage of the quality and variety of its further-education (FE) and higher-education (HE) programmes

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Undergraduate degrees

British academic standards are admired worldwide, with Bachelor’s degrees and higher education diplomas recognised amongst the best

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Postgraduate degrees

UK institutions offer an enormous variety of taught postgraduate certificates, diplomas and Master’s degrees

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Applying to further education colleges

Applications for some FE colleges are handled by UCAS. For those that are not, applications can occasionally be made online, or forms can be downloaded from college websites. Most colleges…