cities in the UK
The UK is the one country where the city changes your visa arithmetic directly: a London course requires £358 more per month of provable money than an identical course anywhere else.
Most study-abroad guides treat the UK as one place. The Home Office does not. Your Student visa maintenance requirement — the money you must prove you hold, in your own account, for 28 consecutive days — is set by a single question: is your course in London or outside it?
Over nine months that difference is more than £3,200 of money you have to show. It is not money you spend; it is money you must have, which for many Nepali families is the harder constraint.
Scotland adds a second wrinkle. Scottish undergraduate honours degrees usually run four years where English ones run three — a full extra year of tuition and living costs that rarely appears in a comparison table. Tap a pin to open a city.
costs more / mid-range / costs less compare these cities to each other, not to anywhere else. They are our reading of the spread across the United Kingdom, not a published index — the sourced money figures are on the costs page.
Three things change with the city in the UK, and only one of them is about the university.
The maintenance requirement
£1,529/month for a London course, £1,171/month outside. Over nine months that is a gap of £3,222 in provable funds.
Degree length in Scotland
Scottish undergraduate honours degrees usually take four years, English ones three. At international fees, that is a whole extra year of cost.
The Graduate Route is national
The two-year post-study Graduate visa does not depend on where you studied. Nothing about the city changes it — do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
The job market
London concentrates finance, law, media and tech. Manchester and Birmingham have real markets at lower cost; the Scottish cities are strong in energy, life sciences and software.