UK launches new visa for world’s top graduates — is your college on the list?

The U.K. will now allow graduates from the world's top colleges to apply for a short-term visa to stay and work in the country.

People who have graduated in the last five years from one of the eligible leading universities will be able to apply for the U.K.'s high potential.

Those with a PhD will be offered a three-year visa, while successful applicants will be granted a two-year visa. If graduates are granted a HPI visa, they will be able to switch to other long-term employment visas if they meet eligibility requirements.

Children can apply to stay with their parents in the U.K.

A valid passport or other travel document is required for graduates to apply. It will be available to those who were born in that country. They will have to show that they can communicate with native speakers in English.

If they are applying from the U.K., the application fee is 715 dollars, along with a verification of qualification of 210 dollars.

The U.K.'s National Health Service is usually used by applicants for every year they are in the U.K.

If they are applying from outside the U.K. and are already in the U.K., they will usually find out within 3 weeks.

The list of eligible colleges is based on rankings from around the world. The rundown of eligible universities is here.

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

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