UK Borders Bill
1:30 pm
Professor Ross Anderson: No. What happens inthe USA is that they charge economic fees to undergraduates and subsidise postgraduates. That is one reason why American universities fill most of the top few dozen places in any ranking. If you want to go to somewhere like Stanford as an undergraduate, you might have to pay £20,000 or £30,000 a year, but the profit that they make out of you then subsidises people who are doing research. Harvard, Yale—all the top shops are similar.