St Andrew's, Cambridge
University Foundation & A-level Courses in the UK

Visa information

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St. Andrew's is a Highly Trusted Sponsor under Tier 4 of the UK Border Agency's Points Based System.

This page explains how you can come to the United Kingdom to study. You can come as a student or a student visitor if you are undertaking a short course of study upto six months' long within the period of your permission. If you are coming to the United Kingdom as a student, before you come here you will need to have been accepted onto a course of study by an organisation that is on the register of education and training providers. The course should be at one of the following:

  • a publicly funded institution of further or higher education (a university) with maintained records of enrolment and attendance which are readily available to us
  • a genuine private education institution
  • an independent fee-paying school

and you need to be undertaking one of these:

  • a recognised full-time degree course
  • a course run during the week that involves at least 15 hours of organised daytime study a week
  • a full-time course of study at an independent fee paying school

You must also:

  • be registered with the United Kingdom awarding body if you are studying externally for a degree at a private education institution
  • be able to pay for your course and support and accommodate yourself and any dependants without working or help from public funds
  • plan to leave the United Kingdom when you complete your studies.

Student visitor

If you are coming to the United Kingdom as a visitor to study you must:

  • genuinely be seeking entry as a student visitor for the limited period you tell us you require that does not exceed six months
  • have been accepted on a course of study that will be provided by an organisation included on the Department for Children, Schools and Families' register of education and training providers
  • leave the United Kingdom at the end of the visit you told us about
  • support and pay for accommodation for yourself and any dependants without help from public funds or ensure that you and your dependants will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends
  • not take employment
  • be able to meet the cost of the return or onward journey.

You must not:

  • take employment in the United Kingdom
  • engage in business, produce goods or provide services within the United Kingdom, including selling goods or services direct to members of the public
  • study at a government-funded school
  • be a child under the age of 18
  • undertake part-time (up to 20 hours), or full-time vacation employment
  • undertake a work placement or internship (paid or unpaid) as part of your course of study
  • extend your stay in the United Kingdom.

Visit the UK Border Agency page for students

Free Time at St Andrew's

St Andrew's, Cambridge students at May Ball
It's not all study for St Andrew's students. At the end of the year they let their hair down at the May ball.

There's a lot to do for St Andrew's students in Cambridge.

Cambridge is a young city with students from all over the world and plenty to get up to in your free time. Whether you want cinema, theatre. museums, clubs or pubs there is always something on. 

The Grand Arcade and Grafton centre are home to many shops and London is only 55 minutes away onthe train.

Student parties take place at Christmas and at the end of the academic year there is the May ball.
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St Andrew's Halls of Residence

bedroom in St Andrew's Hall of Residence
St Andrew's Halls of Residence provide secure and comfortable accommodation so you can study and make friends

There are 4 halls of Residence. all within walking distance of St Andrew's main Station Rd site. Each hall offers twin or single rooms and some have en-suite showers. All the rooms are small and friendly and have a residential warden who provides breakfast and dinner. Students are also able to prepare their own snacks in the common room.

There is a common room with a TV, DVD and a computer and there is also free wireless, broadband access.
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