“Expansion of eligible universities unveiled, opening visa route to more European and Australian graduates
More recent graduates from Europe and Australia can apply to work in the UK after the government doubled the number of global universities whose alumni can be eligible for a High Potential Individual visa.
The HPI visa is one of a number of routes used by international researchers coming to the UK and is open to those graduating from a top-ranked university outside the UK within the past five years.
The government recently said it is aiming to double the number of people coming to the UK with an HPI visa from 2,000 to 4,000 next year. In its immigration white paper, published in May, the government said it would double the number ...
“Expansion of eligible universities unveiled, opening visa route to more European and Australian graduates
More recent graduates from Europe and Australia can apply to work in the UK after the government doubled the number of global universities whose alumni can be eligible for a High Potential Individual visa.
The HPI visa is one of a number of routes used by international researchers coming to the UK and is open to those graduating from a top-ranked university outside the UK within the past five years.
The government recently said it is aiming to double the number of people coming to the UK with an HPI visa from 2,000 to 4,000 next year. In its immigration white paper, published in May, the government said it would double the number of qualifying institutions on the list of eligible universities for the visa.
The latest list of institutions qualifying for an HPI visa, published on 4 November, includes 80 universities compared with 42 in 2024. It is compiled from institutions featuring in the top 100 of at least two global university rankings.”
New list:
Australian National University (ANU) Australia Boston University United States Brown University United States California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States Carnegie Mellon University United States City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) Hong Kong Columbia University United States Cornell University United States Delft University of Technology Netherlands Duke University United States EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland ETH Zurich Switzerland Fudan University China Harvard University United States Heidelberg University Germany Institut Polytechnique de Paris France Johns Hopkins University United States Karolinska Institute Sweden KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden KU Leuven Belgium Kyoto University Japan Lund University Sweden Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States McGill University Canada Monash University Australia Nanjing University China Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) Singapore National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore New York University (NYU) United States Northwestern University United States Peking University China Princeton University United States PSL University France Purdue University - West Lafayette United States Seoul National University South Korea Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Sorbonne University France Stanford University United States Technical University of Munich Germany The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong The University of Melbourne Australia The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia The University of Queensland Australia The University of Texas at Austin United States The University of Tokyo Japan Tsinghua University China Université Paris-Saclay France University of Amsterdam Netherlands University of Bonn Germany University of British Columbia Canada University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States University of California, Irvine United States University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States University of California, Santa Barbara United States University of Chicago United States University of Copenhagen Denmark University of Groningen Netherlands University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States University of Munich (LMU Munich) Germany University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States University of Pennsylvania United States University of Science and Technology of China China University of Southern California United States University of Sydney Australia University of Toronto Canada University of Washington United States University of Wisconsin-Madison United States University of Zurich Switzerland Uppsala University Sweden Vanderbilt University United States Washington University in St Louis United States Yale University United States Yonsei University Japan Zhejiang University China