Bank account

All highstreet banks in the UK can be considered safe.

You won’t find much difference between them aside from small incentives and overdraft limits.

Their respective websites will have ‘how to apply pages’.

Thanks a lot. Can you say which specific one would you suggest personally? So I can go about it? And around how much time approx it may take to open the account?

All highstreet banks in the UK can be considered safe.

You won’t find much difference between them aside from small incentives and overdraft limits.

OP appears to be an international student, so is unlikely to be eligible for a student account that offers an overdraft facility or any incentives. You typically have to have lived in the UK for three years to be eligible for these.

Some banks offer specific accounts for international students (e.g. HSBC); others tell international students to open a standard current account (e.g. Barclays).