uniwise BETA

HOW UNIWISE WORKS

Every number here carries a label and a link.

So you can argue with the source instead of arguing with this site.

Where the reviews come from

Most of what you can read about a UK university was written to sell it. This is the opposite of that.

I go to the campus. I walk it, and I talk to students who are there now and to graduates who have finished — about the course, the accommodation, the part-time work, and what happened after.

Where I cannot get there, I interview instead. Students and graduates from that campus, by call. It is written down as an interview rather than a visit, because they are not the same thing.

A review is what they said, not what I think. It collects what students and graduates actually told me. Where they disagree, both are here.

Not every campus, and not yet. One at a time, and each review carries the date it was done, so you can see how fresh it is. The ones without a review say so rather than pretending.

What the labels mean

Verified. Read off a primary source, with the link next to it.
Modelled. Worked out from verified figures, with the formula and every input shown.
Unknown. Nobody publishes it. The slot says so and names who would have to.
Dated. Every figure carries the day it was read.

A league table is not a source. Neither is a consultancy or a study‑abroad site.

Which universities you will find here

The Home Office publishes a register of every institution licensed to sponsor a Student visa. This site takes the higher education institutions on it, on the Student route. That is the whole rule.

190Institutions
425Campuses
25Read in full

A campus that does not open yet is one nobody has finished reading, not one that was left out. The rest carry the fee, the intakes and the English route, and stop there.

What is left off, and why
  • Independent schools, further education colleges, language and drama schools, and pathway colleges attached to a university already listed. Each is excluded by the register’s own category, not by a judgement made here.
  • Institutions teaching outside the UK.
  • Anything not on the register at all. An institution that is not on it cannot issue you a CAS, whatever else is true about it.

What nobody publishes

These are the questions students ask most and no honest source can answer. They are left empty on purpose.

See the rest
  • How much part‑time work exists near a campus. Nobody measures it. The map shows what is there. It does not show who is hiring.
  • Graduate earnings for taught postgraduates by domicile. The Graduate Outcomes survey does include international graduates, so the common claim that they are excluded is wrong. The breakdown a postgraduate applicant needs still does not exist.
  • A ranking. QS positions appear as a fact where one exists. Nothing here sorts or filters by them.

Who pays for this

THE ANSWER

Nobody.

No university pays to appear here. No commission is earned on any course. There is nothing on this site to buy.

If that ever changes it will be written on this page first, before it happens.

What could be wrong

Fees change. Universities move courses between campuses. A figure read in August can be out of date by October.

The things most likely to be out of date
  • Fees. Read on a date, printed with that date. Universities revise them between intakes and do not always announce it.
  • Which campus teaches a course. Courses move. The university page is the one that settles it, and it is linked on every course row.
  • Anything that could not be checked. Each campus page lists these under the things that could not be verified. That list is deliberately visible rather than tidied away.

Check any figure against its own source rather than against this site. That is what the links are for.

THE OTHER HALF OF THIS

What this refuses to do.

Where the numbers come from is one question. What will never be built on top of them is the other one.

What this refuses to do