Find a master's in a city that feels like yours.

Tell TasteCompass the music, films, food and hobbies you love. It reads your taste through Qloo, finds the UK cities that match it, then checks real programmes, fees and deadlines on official course pages and plans your application.

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Free to try. No sign-up. 110 UK universities across 63 cities.

RadioheadBanksySpecialty coffeeHikingStudio Ghibli

Weaker fitCloser to your taste

A real run on Qloo's UK-wide taste heatmap for the tastes above. Grey dots are other university towns, listed but not ranked on taste.

A chatbot can describe cities. It can't check your deadline.

General-purpose LLMs answer study-abroad questions from memory. TasteCompass is an agent: it calls Qloo for taste, reads official course data for facts, and only plans from what it can source.

	General chatbot	TasteCompass
Fees and deadlines	Answers from training data, often last year's figures, with no source.	Taken from the official course page, with the link and the date we checked.UCL Emerging Digital Technologies MSc: apply by 22 Mar 2027 if you need a visa.
Missing information	Fills the gap with a plausible-sounding guess.	Marks it unverified and scores it neutral, so a gap never helps or hurts a programme.
City fit	Generic descriptions: "vibrant", "historic", "student-friendly".	Your own tastes scored on Qloo's taste graph across 24 major student cities, with the places that drove the score.
What you've decided	Drifts outside your constraints as the chat goes on.	Anything you've fixed (country, city or programmes) is a hard filter. Better options outside it are shown separately.
Next steps	A generic checklist.	A dated timeline worked back from the next open application round, ready to add to your calendar.

From what you love to a plan with dates.

Start wherever you are. Undecided on everything, or already set on two programmes, the agent picks the right tools for your situation.

Say what's decided
Nothing yet, the country, a city, or specific programmes. Whatever you fix stays fixed.
Share your tastes
Artists, films, books, food and hobbies. Qloo turns them into a taste profile and scores every major student city.
Weigh what matters
Programmes are scored on taste, academic fit, budget and English requirements. Drag the weights to match your priorities.
Get a dated plan
For each pick: when to book IELTS, ask referees and submit, worked back from the real deadline.

Qloo does the part no chatbot can.

Without Qloo, TasteCompass would be another search box. With it, "where would I be happy?" becomes something you can measure.

Understands your taste

Each interest is matched in Qloo's taste graph. Works and people become entities; activities become tags.

Radiohead becomes an artist entity
Hiking becomes an activity tag

Compares cities on one map

One Qloo heatmap covers the whole UK, so every city is scored on the same scale, measured within 10 km of its centre.

For the example tastes, Bath and Bristol rank near the top; London sits near the bottom.

Shows what you'd love there

Qloo's place recommendations, filtered to the city and cleaned of national chains, become a first week you'd actually enjoy.

In Bristol: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Spike Island, The Radnor Rooms

Every number has a source.

Programme facts are checked by hand on official course pages for 2027 entry. Where a page doesn't say, TasteCompass says so. Every university in 63 UK cities is listed with its official site, so you can keep exploring.

OxfordCambridgeImperialLSEUCLKing's College London EdinburghManchesterBristolGlasgowLeeds

Social Data Science MSc

University of Oxford

Overseas fee: £40,730
Deadlines: 13 Nov 2026 and 7 Jan 2027
IELTS: 7.5 overall, 7.0 in each part
Decision date: Not stated on the page

Source: ox.ac.uk course page, checked 27 Oct 2026

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