You hear it in the Californian drawls at dinner parties. You feel it when a New Yorker lands into freshers week and knows a quarter of their cohort. You see it in the apartments that resemble New England summer homes. Nearly one in five students at the University of St. Andrews are American—more than any other university in the U.K.— and it shows.
Tucked into the once sleepy East Neuk of Fife, the town has been turned into what some call “mini-Nantucket”, where around every street corner you hear an American accent. This is not your average British university experience.
