UK education placement agency · Established 2018

Your journey to a
UK university
starts here.

We match you with the right course, prepare your application and support you through enrolment. Our service is free for students — partner universities pay us, not you.

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Find the route that fits where you are now.

Foundation Year

Your school qualifications don't map onto UK entry requirements, or your English needs building first. A Foundation year gets you onto a degree with a progression route.

1 yearThen straight onto a degree

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Foundation Year — check if this route fits me

Undergraduate Degree

Three- and four-year Bachelor's degrees. We handle your UCAS application, your personal statement and your references — including January entry and Clearing.

3–4 yearsUCAS handled for you

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Undergraduate Degree — check if this route fits me

Master's Degree

One-year taught Master's across business, engineering, computing, health and the social sciences. Direct application, often with a decision inside a fortnight.

1 yearDecisions in ~2 weeks

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Master's Degree — check if this route fits me

Already Here / Switch

Most people on a valid visa can apply to move onto a Student route without leaving the UK. We secure the place and the CAS; a regulated adviser handles the immigration side.

In-countryOISC adviser introduced free

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Switching inside the UK — check if this route fits me

What it costs you

£0

You pay nothing. Not now, and not later.

There is no consultation fee, no application fee, no "premium package", and no charge that appears later in the process.

  1. You Apply through us, free at every stage
  2. University You enrol and pay your tuition directly to them
  3. Unilight Education The university pays us a commission after you enrol

UK universities need to recruit international students, and they'd rather work with an agency that sends them well-matched, properly prepared applicants than process thousands of speculative applications themselves. That commission is our entire income.

The obvious follow-up: doesn't that mean you'll push me somewhere that pays you more? Our advisers are salaried, not paid per placement. We publish every university we hold a partnership with. And if the right course for you is somewhere we have no agreement, we'll tell you and help you apply there anyway.

We will never ask you to send us money. Tuition goes to your university, visa fees to the Home Office, test fees to the test provider. If anyone claiming to represent Unilight Education asks you for a payment, it isn't us — tell us on +44 7956 458768.

  • No student feesFree at every stage, with nothing to pay later.
  • One adviserThe same person from first question to first term.
  • Weekly updatesEvery week, whether or not anything has changed.
  • Honest guidanceIf a course isn't realistic, we say so at the assessment.

Progress

Your application journey

Six stages from first conversation to first lecture. We carry most of them.

  1. 01

    Assessment

    Thirty minutes, free. An honest read on what's realistic.

    You tell us your qualifications, budget and subject. We build a shortlist with one ambitious option and one safe one — and flag anything in your history that needs handling early.

  2. 02

    Documents

    Transcripts, passport, references, translations.

    We tell you exactly what each university needs and check everything before it goes. Missing or mismatched documents are the most common cause of delay, and entirely preventable.

  3. 03

    Applications

    Submitted to every university on your shortlist.

    Including through UCAS where that applies. You approve your personal statement before anything is sent — we never submit in your name without your sign-off.

  4. 04

    Offers

    Compared side by side, in plain language.

    We explain exactly what each conditional offer requires and by when, chase admissions teams that go quiet, and ask about scholarships and fee waivers where they exist.

  5. 05

    CAS

    Issued, and checked line by line.

    We prepare you for the university's pre-CAS interview and make sure the CAS itself is correct. Wrong dates or a misspelled name cause refusals, and are far easier to fix before it's used.

  6. 06

    Enrolment

    Accommodation, bank, GP, registration — and after.

    Your adviser stays your contact through your first term. Enrolment is when we get paid; it isn't when we stop.

Immigration matters are handled by an OISC-regulated adviser we introduce you to, free of charge. We are not regulated to give that advice ourselves.

Discover

Where you could study

Location changes the real cost of your degree more than the tuition does. Pick a city to see what it's actually like.

Partner institutions are those we hold formal written agreements with — they pay us a commission when a student we've introduced enrols. Being on that list doesn't make a university right for you, and not being on it doesn't rule it out. If the best course for you is somewhere we have no agreement, we'll say so and help you apply there anyway.

Situations

Typical student journeys

Not reviews — the situations we deal with most often, so you can see whether yours is one of them.

Elif

Turkish national · in the UK on a dependant visa

Her husband's visa was ending and she assumed she'd have to fly home to apply for anything at all. In fact most people on valid leave can apply from inside the UK. Our part was the university place and the CAS; a regulated adviser handled the switch itself.

Taught Master's · January intake

Samuel

Nigerian national · applying from overseas

One previous refusal, and he was convinced that was the end of it. A refusal makes the next application harder, not impossible — nearly everything depends on the reason for it. Our part was being straight about which universities were realistic and which weren't worth the fee.

Undergraduate engineering · September intake

Aygül

Turkish national · applying from overseas

Sometimes the most useful thing an adviser can tell you is that your English isn't there yet, and that a pre-sessional course is cheaper and faster than sitting IELTS for a third time. It cost a couple of months and saved about a year.

Pre-sessional English into a taught Master's

Mihail

Bulgarian national · already living in the UK

He'd been working in the UK for years and assumed university was closed to him. What he actually needed was someone to work out which entry route his existing qualifications opened, and to be honest that one of the courses he'd set his heart on wasn't going to accept him.

Foundation year into a business degree

These are illustrations, not reviews. We'd rather show you the situations we actually handle than invent testimonials. Real student stories will be published here, with their written permission, as they come in.

Free eligibility check

What's your best route?

Four questions, about sixty seconds. No email needed to start, and nothing you enter is saved until you choose to send it.

Next intakes

— days remaining September 2026 Recommended by 31 August 2026
— days remaining January 2027 Recommended by 14 November 2026

Our own recommended start dates, not university closing dates.

Question 1 of 4

01Where are you right now?

Straight answers

The questions people actually ask

Is it genuinely free, with nothing to pay later?

Yes. We charge students nothing at any stage. Our income is commission paid by partner universities after a student enrols. You will pay your university, the Home Office and your English test provider directly — never us.

Can you guarantee I'll get a visa?

No, and you should be wary of anyone who says they can. Visa decisions are made by the Home Office alone. What we can do is make sure your application to the university is strong, your CAS is issued correctly, your documents are in order, and you're properly prepared for a credibility interview — the things that are actually within anyone's control.

I'm already in the UK. Do I have to go home to apply?

Usually not. Most people on a valid visa can apply to switch to a Student route from inside the UK, though there are exceptions — visitor visas in particular have restrictions. Whether you can switch depends on your current leave and your immigration history, which is a question for a regulated adviser rather than for us. We'll get you the university place and the CAS, and introduce you to one.

I've been refused a visa before. Is there any point?

Often, yes. A previous refusal makes the next application harder, not impossible, and a great deal depends on the refusal reason. Tell us about it at the assessment stage — early and in full. Advisers who don't know about a refusal can't work around it, and undisclosed history is the most common reason a second application fails too.

Will you only recommend universities that pay you?

We'll always tell you where our commercial relationships are — every institution we hold a formal partnership with is listed publicly. If the best course for you sits outside that list, we'll say so and help you apply anyway.

Are you immigration lawyers?

No. We're an education placement agency. We're not regulated by the OISC and we don't give immigration advice. For anything that touches your visa or your immigration status, we'll introduce you to an OISC-regulated adviser or an immigration solicitor. That introduction is free too, and we don't take a referral fee for it.

Where our help stops

What we are, and what we're not

Unilight Education is a UK-registered education placement agency. We advise on courses and institutions, prepare and submit university applications, and support students through to enrolment. We work to the principles of the British Council's National Code of Ethical Practice for UK Education Agents.

We are not regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, and we do not provide immigration advice or immigration services. Under UK law only a person regulated to do so may advise on immigration matters. Where you need that advice we'll introduce you to an OISC-regulated adviser or an immigration solicitor — free of charge, and we take no referral fee.

We'd rather tell you this on the homepage than have you find it out in month three.

Your next step

Let's find your best route to a UK university.

We'll guide you step by step — thirty minutes, no cost and no obligation.

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We'll follow up once, and then leave you alone. No pressure calls and no daily messages.