University education is expensive. With tuition fees recently increasing to £9,250, many students leave university with over £50,000 worth of debt. This cost rises further when you consider that you have lost three or four years’ worth of time developing your work experience and climbing your career ladder.
This means that you would have a much higher salary should you spend that time in employment, and so you should consider that a further cost on top of the immediate expenses. Starting an apprenticeship nulls all of those costs, and you will even earn a full wage while you do it.