Graduates From These Top Universities Are Eligible for UK Work Visa

According to the UK government’s website, a High Potential Individual (HPI) gives graduates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree from some top 50 universities the permission to stay in the United Kingdom for at least two years, while Ph.D. students are given a three-year work visa.

The new High Potential Individual route is intended to attract those at the early stages of their careers, who demonstrate exceptional promise, providing a highly desirable and able pool of mobile talent from which UK employers can recruit.

the government press release informed.

In order to be able to apply, graduates should have been awarded a qualification by an eligible university over the past five years. Applicants who are successful have the opportunity to switch to longer-term employment visas.

In order to be able to apply, graduates should have been awarded a qualification by an eligible university over the past five years. Applicants who are successful have the opportunity to switch to longer-term employment visas(UK Work Visa).

How much would the visa cost?

The application fee for the visa is £715 and applicants would also need to pay a “healthcare surcharge” of around £ 624 per year, according to the government website.

The recent list of eligible universities from 2021, published on the government’s website, includes the following institutions:

1. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – United States
2. Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) – Hong Kong
3. Columbia University – United States
4. Cornell University – United States
5. Duke University – United States
6. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland) – Switzerland
7. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) – Switzerland
8. Harvard University – United States
9. Johns Hopkins University – United States
10. Karolinska Institute – Sweden
11. Kyoto University – Japan
12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – United States
13. McGill University – Canada
14. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) – Singapore
15. National University of Singapore – Singapore
16. New York University (NYU) – United States
17. Northwestern University – United States
18. Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University –France
19. Peking University – China
20. Princeton University – United States
21. Stanford University – United States
22. Tsinghua University – China
23. University of British Columbia – Canada
24. University of California, Berkeley – United States
25. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – United States
26. University of California, San Diego – United States
27. University of Chicago US – United States
28. University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong
29. University of Melbourne –Australia
30. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor – United States
31. University of Munich (LMU Munich) – Germany
32. University of Pennsylvania – United States
33. University of Texas at Austin – United States
34. University of Tokyo – Japan
35. University of Toronto – Canada
36. University of Washington – United States
37. Yale University – United States