You need to think about funding. Most U.K. funded PhD opportunities will not be open to you as a US citizen. Most U.K. PhD funding is now being routed through

You need to think about funding. Most U.K. funded PhD opportunities will not be open to you as a US citizen. Most U.K. PhD funding is now being routed through what are called ‘Doctoral training centres’ and these generally only have funded places for students from the U.K. or the EU, unless it’s an industrially funded one in which the scope of the project will generally be very strictly defined. Most non-EU students come in on special programmes where their country pays for the PhD I.e. Chile has a programme called CONICET that a colleague of mine was funded through. In all my time in research heavy (look for the “Russell Group”) Universities I’ve not met a couple of PhD students from the US for that reason.