We get asked a lot about working in the UK. While you will need a visa or UK citizenship, there are a number of options you can consider.

If you need financial support to make US undergraduate study a possibility, look here.

Every year, we gather for Thanksgiving in part to keep the tradition alive, but also to help connect members of PBK in London and the UK. Take a look at our gallery of our past gatherings.

Lydia Dye-Stonebridge explains how The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the latest book club choice, cautions us from turning away from the ugly aspects of human nature.

On 11 May, we held our first overseas member meet-and-greet with Phi Beta Kappa CEO and Secretary, Fred Lawrence. Lydia Dye-Stonebridge gives a summary of what was discussed and what opportunities are available to overseas members.

Former UK Prime Minister, Lord Balfour, joined Phi Beta Kappa in 1917. Lydia Dye-Stonebridge reflects on why this mattered and how it reflects a common commitment to quality in education.

On 27 February 2022, five of our members went to the Amazonia exhibition at the Science Museum.

Our most recent PBKLDN Guilty Readers Book Club choice, Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, deals with the disconnect of experience and political rhetoric in Vietnam. Member John Wilson shares his memories of his time in service.

Lydia Dye-Stonebridge reads Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Peter Mandler’s The Crisis of the Meritocracy at the same time, and discovers they are both books about realising potential. Or at least makes that arbitrary connection.

All you need for a PhD in Computer Science is a computer, right? Turns out you also need peer support and a life outside of study. Member Mackenzie Jorgensen explains how she navigated London’s lockdown landscape to make the most of her first year of study abroad.

John Wilson explains that when it comes to Covid-19, civic responsibility must accompany democratic rights.

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, our latest Guilty Readers book club selection, is unapologetically about death. But, as Lydia Dye-Stonebridge points out, there’s also a message about restoration.

A real United Nations feel, one-year and research-intensive Masters degrees, plus a short flight from most of Europe. There are many reasons to study as a graduate in the UK. Hear from three of our members why they made this choice and what they did to prepare.

Our relationship may be special (or to some, indestructible), but it also takes some time and patience to adjust to life in the UK. Lydia Dye-Stonebridge shares what she’s learned over the last eighteen years.

Melinda Gates is one, and so too are many of us after the pandemic. What does George Eliot have to say about being a stay-at-home parent?

For the launch of our ‘Guilty Readers Book Club’, we took on Eliot’s Middlemarch. Member Patricia Stefanowicz explains why she nominated this book, and takes a look at how our first discussion went.

As we pass the first one hundred days of President Biden’s time in office, perhaps now is a better time than ever to reflect on the conclusion of what has been a rather calamitous few years for America’s international students.