The Emory program in the United Kingdom provides you access to several of the best institutions of higher learning in Britain. You enter the British university for a term, semester, or year as a full-fledged study abroad student with full access to the facilities of the university. Emory students live in regular university housing with British students. You pay all room and board and other non-academic costs directly to the British institution.
British students specialize much earlier than their American counterparts.
Consequently, American study abroad students normally spend all or part of their junior year, after they have had a chance to take some courses in their major. Some universities such as Oxford, London School of Economics and University of Manchester only accept students for a full year of study. You must also be prepared to study primarily in your major. Do not expect to be able to follow a diverse liberal arts curriculum in a British university since British students study only one, or at most two, subjects in depth. British higher education is reputed around the world for placing the emphasis on guiding you to think independently.