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UK Government announcement re tuition fees and student support (maintenance loans)

On Monday 4 November 2024 the UK Government announced proposed changes to tuition fees and student support (maintenance loans) from academic year 2025/26. The Government intends to lay regulations implementing these changes later in 2024 and early in 2025. These regulations will be subject to Parliamentary procedure. The University will keep students and prospective students updated.

Tuition Fees

UK applicants

The tuition fee for students starting their course in the autumn of 2024 is £9250, which is the maximum allowed by the UK government. 

Tuition fees are payable for every year of your course (including during placement and study abroad) and are subject to annual change depending on any increments (usually in line with inflation) determined by government.  

If you spend a year in placement then the tuition fee is £1850, while the fee for a year spent studying abroad is £1,385.

EU applicants

Following the UK’s exit from the European Union, students from the EU, EEA and Swiss nationals will no longer be eligible for home fee status or financial support from Student Finance England. 

Unless you are an EU, EEA or Swiss national benefitting from Citizens’ Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement respectively then you will be charged overseas fees (which can be found using our courses search below). 

The Common Travel Area arrangement with Ireland

The UK Government is firmly committed to maintaining the rights of Irish citizens to access higher and further education courses on a reciprocal basis. This includes rights to home fee status, tuition fee loans and maintenance support subject to meeting the eligibility criteria on the same basis as UK nationals.

Irish citizens resident in the UK, Islands or Ireland for three years before the start of their course and undertaking a course in England will be eligible for home fee status, tuition fee loans and Advanced Learner Loans from Student Finance England on the same basis as UK nationals.

International applicants

For students starting their programme in 2024/25, the tuition fees shown for overseas and EU students are for one complete academic year of full-time study, are set according to the academic year of entry, and remain the same throughout the duration of the programme for that cohort (unless otherwise stated)

For students starting their programme in 2025/26 (and later), fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase and are expected to rise throughout the programme of study. The fee listed on the course database is for the first year of the course only; fees for subsequent years will be confirmed not less than 3 months before the start of the academic year to which the increase is intended to apply and will be published on the Finance webpages.

In deciding the annual level of increase the University will take into account inflationary pressures on the costs of delivery. Tuition fees will rise annually by up to the higher of;

  1. 6%, or,
  2. the latest annual percentage increase in the Consumer Prices Index.