Your IELTS score came back low. What are your actual options?

Almost everyone assumes the answer is to retake it. Sometimes that is right. Often it is the slowest of the three routes available.
Straight answers on recognition, visas, funding and what a year abroad actually costs.

Almost everyone assumes the answer is to retake it. Sometimes that is right. Often it is the slowest of the three routes available.

The amount is published and fixed. What catches families out is the 28-day rule, and it causes more refusals than any other single thing.

Recognition is decided by conditions you meet before you enrol, not after you graduate: the recognised universities list, the Tawjihi minimum for your field, the months you must spend on campus, and the separate licensing gate.