he debate over whether an undergraduate degree from an English university repre- Price Plan: annual tuition fee data for full-time courses at uK institutions, 2016-17 sents good value for money has been T Institution Undergrad uate UK/EU (£) Undergraduate overseas (£) Postgraduate Postgraduate taught overseas (£) MBA (£) raging ever since the tuition fee cap was trebled taught UK/EU to £9,000 in 2012. (£) After the UK’s vote to leave the European Standard Rest of UK Classroom Laboratory Clinical Classroom Laboratory Clinical UK/EU Overseas Union, however, students from the Continent are likely to face an even starker question: University of Aberdeen 0 9,000 13,800 17,200 28,600 4,500-7,100 13,800-17,200 13,800-17,200 – 17,200 17,200 does a British undergraduate degree represent Abertay University 0 7,500 11,500 12,500-13,500 – 6,500 11,500 12,500-13,500 – – – good value at more than £13,000 a year Aberystwyth University 3,900 9,000 13,000 14,500 – 5,700 13,750 15,000 – – – – or, in the case of clinical subjects, in excess Anglia Ruskin University 9,000 – 11,000-11,500 11,500-12,500 – 6,100-7,100 11,200-11,700 11,700-12,700 12,700-12,900 12,900 12,900 of £24,000? Arts University Bournemouth 9,000 – 13,995 13,995 – 6,500 14,400 18,000 – – – A survey of tuition fees for the coming Aston University 9,000 – 13,800 16,850 – 5,350 13,800 16,850 – 25,550 25,550 academic year, compiled by The Complete Bangor University 3,900 9,000 11,750 13,300–15,300 – 5,085-8,600 12,250 13,800-18,000 13,800 11,500 14,300-15,500 University of Bath 9,000 – 14,700 18,500 – 6,000-15,500 15,000 19,800 – 33,000 33,000 University Guide and published this week by Bath Spa University 9,000 – 11,600 – – 6,595 11,600 – – – – Times Higher Education, may add to fears University of Bedfordshire 9,000 – 9,750 9,750 – 4,500 9,900 9,900 – 6,750 11,250 that EU students will vote with their feet and Birkbeck, University of London 9,000 – 13,000 13,000 – 7,950 14,450 14,450 – – – go elsewhere post-Brexit, with significant University of Birmingham 9,000 – 13,860 18,000 32,580 6,570 14,850 18,900 – 22,590 22,590 consequences for institutions’ finances, the Birmingham City University 9,000 – 12,000 – – 6,500-7,500 12,000 – – 9,500 14,500 viability of courses and campus diversity. Bishop Grosseteste University 9,000 – 11,500 – – 4,950 12,500 – – – – “EU students currently have to be treated University of Bolton 9,000 – 11,250 11,250 11,250 9,000 11,250 11,250 11,250 8,500 12,500 exactly as home students [are] in terms of fees Bournemouth University 9,000 – 13,500 13,500 – 5,500-9,250 12,500-14,500 12,500-14,500 – 9,750 14,000 and loans. Hence, they are treated advanta- University of Bradford 9,000 – 12,950 15,420 – 5,990 13,540 15,600 – 25,500 25,500 geously compared to an international student University of Brighton 9,000 – 12,420 13,800 28,000 6,030 14,400 – – 14,850 18,000 University of Bristol 9,000 – 15,600 18,800 35,000 6,100-13,900 14,500-24,100 17,400-23,700 18,600-37,500 – – paying higher fees and [ineligible for] govern- Brunel University 9,000 – 14,100 17,200 – 7,300 14,100 17,200 – 21,000 21,000 ment-funded loans,” notes David Palfreyman, University of Buckingham 12,444 – 17,160 – 35,525 7,480 14,140 – 27,000 9,660 15,860 director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Bucks New University 6,750-9,000 – 9,500 – – 4,300-8,750 9,400 – – 9,500 10,600 Education Policy Studies and co-author of University of Cambridge 9,000 – 24,000 32,000 46,000 16,000 25,000 26,000 30,000 49,000 49,000 The Law of Higher Education. But, after the will continue to pay the home rate averaging Canterbury Christ Church University 9,000 – 11,000 11,000 – 4,900-13,120 11,000-21,860 11,000-21,860 12,500-23,000 9,000-15,000 11,000-17,500 UK leaves the EU, “all that ends, except almost just under £9,000 (rising to £9,250 in Cardiff University 3,900 9,000 14,500 18,250 32,250 6,000 14,500 18,250 18,250 12,000 19,500 certainly for a transition period for students 2017-18) to study at an English university. Cardiff Metropolitan University 3,900 9,000 10,800 10,800 12,000 4,500 12,500 12,500 – 9,000 12,500 who have already started their courses prior But, after that, they will probably be charged University of Central Lancashire 9,000 – 11,950 12,950 11,950 6,000 12,950 13,450 12,950 11,500 15,500 to the triggering of Article 50 [the EU treaty an international rate that, for a classroom- University of Chester 9,000 – 10,500 10,500 10,500 4,140-7,020 9,700 9,700 9,700 8,800 10,750 mechanism by which countries can exit the based course, currently stands at an average University of Chichester 5,500-9,000 – 10,620 12,240 – 5,390-10,800 10,620 12,000-14,040 – – – City University London 9,000 – 14,000 14,500 14,500 9,500 15,000 15,000 16,000 39,500 39,500 bloc] – or perhaps up to the point of the of £13,394: up 5.1 per cent year-on-year. Conservatoire for Dance and Drama 9,000 – 17,200 – – 5,825 17,200 – – – – Article 50 negotiations being concluded”. The gap between home and international Courtauld Institute of Art 9,000 – 16,800 – – 7,500-11,916 16,800-20,500 – – – – So, for the time being, EU undergraduates undergraduate fees has grown significantly Coventry University 9,000 – 11,359 12,418 13,476 5,799 11,280 13,678 17,787-28,111 10,500 14,500 University of Cumbria 9,000 – 10,500 10,500 10,500 4,590 10,500 – – 10,170 15,500 new seams to mine: is there gold in the Postgraduate marKet? De Montfort University 9,000 – 11,750 12,250 12,250 4,750 12,200 12,700 12,200 8,250 14,000 University of Derby 9,000 – 11,500 11,500-12,000 11,500 – 12,000 12,000-16,600 12,000-16,300 9,000 13,800 With undergraduate However, the fee levels ter’s fees and they are postgraduate loans is yet University of Dundee 0 *9,000 12,950 15,950 21,300-32,000 4,500 12,950 15,950 22,000 16,800 16,800 fees tightly regulated remain significantly below thinking that they need to emerge. “There are Durham University 9,000 – 16,500 20,900 – 6,500 15,700 19,900 – 24,000-25,000 24,000-25,000 and European Union the cost of running a to put them up,” Deem a few institutions that University of East Anglia 9,000 – 14,500 17,850 28,550 7,150 14,500 17,850 14,500 19,500 19,500 recruitment at risk, master’s course, esti- says. And she suspects seem to have gone up University of East London 9,000 – 11,100 11,100 11,100 6,150-9,360 12,100 12,100 12,100 15,000 15,000 Edge Hill University 9,000 – 11,350 – – 4,680 12,250 – – 10,200 12,750 where might univer- mated to average that the introduction of much more towards the University of Edinburgh 0 9,000 16,700 21,900 49,600 8,500 17,400 22,500 37,200 27,100 27,100 sities be able to £11,315 by a study pub- the loans “encourages undergraduate fee, but Edinburgh Napier University 0 *9,000 11,840 13,740 – 3,400 12,620 14,690 – 13,620 15,630 increase their income? lished in 2014 by the people in institutions to in general, the average University of Essex 9,000 – 12,950 14,950 28,853 5,950-9,950 14,500-15,500 14,500-15,500 15,500-16,000 17,500 17,500 One opportunity sug- Higher Education Council think they can afford to fee increase, while it is University of Exeter 9,000 – 15,950 18,550 28,500 6,900 15,950 21,000 – 23,500 23,500 gested by The Complete for England. Rosemary put fees up by a bit more well beyond inflation, Falmouth University 9,000 – 15,000 – – 6,500 15,000 – – 13,500 16,000 University Guide’s survey Deem, vice-principal for than they might otherwise is not a leap straight up University of Glasgow 0 *9,000 15,250 18,900 33,950 6,950 15,250 18,900 37,500 15,500 22,950 of fees for the 2016-17 education at Royal Hollo- have done”. to £10,000. There is Glasgow Caledonian University 0 7,000 10,500 – – 5,800 11,000 – – 14,500 14,500 academic year is domes- way, University of London Looking behind the a lot of uncertainty at the Glasgow School of Art 0 9,000 13,800 – – 6,120 – – – – – tic recruitment to taught and chair of the UK average rise, some institu- moment, so that may lead University of Gloucestershire 9,000 – 11,750 11,750 – 4,980 11,950 11,950 – 9,900 13,000 postgraduate courses.