Study in UK with Scholarship for Indian Students

The admission process for UK’s universities and colleges is taken care of by the UCAS

Step 1: Choose your course from the variety of courses available at universities in the UK.

Step 2: Check your eligibility for the course you are applying for.

Step 3: For taking admission to the undergraduate courses in the UK, students need to apply via UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Services). Apply via the UCAS portal.

Step 4: For taking admission in the UK, with all the required documents, students also need a Letter of Recommendation (LOR).

Step 5: Once applied via the UCAS portal, students need to submit all the documents to the online portal.

Step 6: According to the requirements of the course, students need to give an entrance exam or interview if there are any depending on the course they are applying for.

Step 7: When selected, the university will provide the admission letter/invitation letter to students and then students can pay the first year fee to proceed for a visa.

There are different documents required that may differ depending on the courses you choose. But let's see about some of the common documents that a student will need while applying to take admission to universities in the UK:

• Academic mark sheets
• Medical insurance
• Student visa
• Passport
• A Statement of Purpose (SOP)
• A Letter of Recommendation (LOR)
• CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies) letter
• A Valid Passport
• Student Visa
• HIV report
• Covid-19 report
• Experience certificate (for some masters courses)
• English proficiency certificates (IELTS/TOEFL)

To study in the UK, students need to appear and clear some entrance exams. These exams are not all compulsory but some of them are compulsory and some are just mandatory as per the course requirements:

• TOEFL - Test of English as Foreign Language
• IELTS -International English Language Test System
• PTE - Pearson Test of English
• GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test
• SAT- Scholarship Aptitude test
• GRE - Graduate Record Examination

To study in the UK, proof of English language proficiency is compulsory. But due to pandemic and under some circumstances, some of the UK’s universities have removed this compulsion:

Students can study in the UK now without IELTS. These are the few of the best universities and institutions that have waived off the compulsion of IELTS.

• Brunel University
• University of Northampton
• University of Plymouth
• University of Central Lancashire
• University of Greenwich
• Swansea University
• Robert Gordon University
• Portsmouth University
• Northumbria University

There are different options of scholarships for Indian students to study in the UK. Students Can choose from the options given below and some more by clearing the entrance exams or getting better merit lists:

Different scholarship programs have different criteria for Indian students.

• Rhodes Scholarship
• Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan
• Felix Scholarship
• Chevening Scholarship
• Erasmus Mundus joint masters degree scholarship
• Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship
• Inlaks Scholarship
• Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarship
• Hornby Scholarship

To study in the UK, Indian students need to have a student visa. This visa allows them to study in the UK and stay in the UK till the course period they have applied for.

Students need to take in mind that the visa process may take 15 to 45 days to complete. So students need to start their admission process and visa process accordingly.

There are 2 types of student visas, Tier 4 student visa, and short-term student visa. Tier 4 student visa is for those students who are 16 years old or above and the course duration of the course they are applying for exceeds 11 months.

The short term visa is for the students who are applying for the short courses. The time of these short term courses does not exceed 11 months.

Process

To start the student visa process, the students need to choose their visas first.

• Choose your visa according to the duration of your course and apply for it.
• Book an appointment with the embassy.
• Submit your documents.
• Give an interview for the visa.
• Wait for the response.

Note: students need to keep in mind that you need to provide the medical certificate stating that you do not have Tuberculosis (TB). Any person with TB can not get entry to the UK.

Documents required for student visa

• A valid passport
• CAS letter from college
• SOP
• Blank page on passport
• Financial support proof, (bank statements, passbook copies)
• Medical reports
• Tuberculosis (TB) report

Cost for Student Visa

There is an application fee for a student visa which differs by the type of visa you are applying for:

• For tier 4 student visa it approximately charges around Rs. 29,000. This is subject to change as per the currency rate. But it is a rough idea of the application fee.
• For short term student visas, there are two different fees for different time spans.
• If a student is choosing to stay and study in the UK for 6 months then the application charges are around Rs. 8000.
• For an 11 month stay, the short term student visa application charges are approximately Rs. 16,000.

Note: All the charges are mentioned roughly. It is subject to change with the currency rates.

The one-time cost like visa, medical insurance, flight tickets etc costs can be borne at the starting phase of the admission process. Let's have a look at how much it costs to live in the UK for Indian students:

Note: 1 GBP = 100 INR