Graduates of the world’s 50 best universities qualify for a UK visa.
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Very Important People, step aside: The UK just dropped a new immigration program for what it’s calling “High Potential Individuals.” If you’ve graduated from one of the world’s 50 best universities within the last five years, you’re eligible for a two- or three-year visa—no job offer required.
To make it onto the UK’s list of qualifying unis, a school has to first land on two out of three of these global college rankings: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, and The Academy of Ranking World Universities. Sorry, Barstool Top 50 Party Schools.
- The high potential individuals, per the UK: graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley, NYU, UPenn, MIT, UCLA
- Those with less potential: graduates of Dartmouth, Brown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Rice, everyone writing this newsletter
To check if your school made the cut (20 in the US did), here’s the full list.
Zoom out: The UK is facing a serious worker shortage, and this new visa program is an attempt to convince highly skilled employees that chips > fries.—JW
