It really just depends on your field of study as to how competitive selection is. I am not a UK national, yet I successfully applied to and completed a graduate degree in the UK, so in my experience, it is inaccurate if anyone tells you that by default it is more difficult for non-UK nationals. In fact, an argument could be made completely to the contrary, since tuition charges for non-EU students are higher, I hypothesize that many institutions probably go out of their way to recruit non-EU students. Possibly this is less so for Cambridge/Oxford, since their endowments are probably so large they may not be as reliant on or desperate for tuition funds to survive. But even so, they are after the best students to further their reputation, so I don’t think where the person comes from is really that much of an issue.

If you’re talking about a research degree as opposed to a taught degree, then the main tip is this: you have to find a good match between what topic you are interested in researching and someone in the department who is also interested enough to be willing to supervise you-if you find that match, you’ll get in-it just may be that that match isn’t Cambridge. You should keep all of your options open.

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