University College London

Yes it is harder to get into University College London than King's College London. The acceptance rate of UCL is between 22-30%, where it is around 43% for Kings. There is a slight difference in the acceptance rates of both universities but the toughness increases even with few rate change. Both the university consider factors like qualification, work experience, English language requirements, and more.

Similar to the Ivy League in the US, 24 of the best universities are part of the Russell Group in the UK. The main difference between RG universities and others comes in research, teaching, and overall standing. RG university faculty members are usually Nobel Prize winners or world-class researchers. You get a low student to faculty ratio and a better environment.

University College London offers a lot of courses for international at the undergraduate and graduate level. The popular course areas at the university include Engineering, Business and Management, Law, Medicine, Health Sciences and Sciences. The course rankings at UCL are mentioned in the table below -

They both offer the best education to international students. If we compare them in terms of  MS in CS, then the cost of study at Georgia Tech is lower than at UCL. Students can check the below table for more detail:

UCLgraduates were placed in a wide range of industries/ sectors with Education and Other Educational Activities as the top one with 16.6% of placements. Other sectors include Health & Social Care, Academic Research and HE, Accountancy and Financial Services, Construction, Built Environment and property, IT, technology & telecommunications, Manufacturing, Scientific Research, development & analysis, Publishing, journalism & translation, Law, Retail & wholesale activities, etc

Popular job roles at UCL include Generalist medical practitioners, Programmers and software development professionals, Finance and investment analysts and advisers, Primary education teaching professionals, Management consultants and business analysts, Higher education teaching professionals, Other researchers, unspecified discipline Business and related research professionals, Marketing associate professionals, Actuaries, economists and statisticians, Biochemists and biomedical scientists Social and humanities scientists, Business, research and administrative professionals IT business analysts  etc.

 MSc Economics of UCL recorded a career outcome rate of 94.2%. Following are the finer details:

• Salary: £42,184 (average) and £38,000 (median)
• Industry: Consultancy, Accountancy & Financial Services, Policy & government, Academic Research and HE, Banking and investment, etc
• Recruiters: Frontier Economics, Bank of England, UK Government,  Charles River Associates UK Ltd, EY, etc
• Job Roles: Actuaries, economists and statisticians, Management consultants and business analysts, etc

Yes Those who are pursuing research-based courses at UCL have access to entrepreneurship training for doctoral students and early career researchers (SPERO), which consists of 5 workshops plus a Hatchery startup incubator. Students can have access to all the facilities of BaseKX, a dedicated mentor, monthly meetings with an experienced entrepreneurship advisor, office hours with lawyers, accountants and expert facilitators, etc.

 Examples of few career events at UCL include Academic Career Planning for PhD Students, Effective Academic Applications, Presenting Your Skills to Non-Academic Recruiters: CVs and Application Forms, Marketing Yourself Online: LinkedIn Lab, etc. The University hosts career fairs for student-employer connect, employer presentations, sector insights programme for focusing on specific industry sector, researchers' programme aimed specifically at research students, just to name a few. 

Some skill development events offered at UCL include Career Essentials programme which involves a series of Careers Consultant led talks on career planning, personality profiling, job hunting, networking, writing applications and preparing for interviews and assessment centres and Career Essentials Group Work Programme, which involves CV review and guidance, application development, etc.