Tuition fee status

Your tuition fee status will determine how much you pay in fees. We determine your tuition fee status based on information you supply during the application process.

The different fee status categories

The fees you have to pay will depend on: 

  • your nationality or visa status and
  • the country or region where you are ordinarily resident  

We call this your tuition fee status.   

What ordinarily resident means

For postgraduate degrees, fee status is divided into: 

  • Home fee rate consisting of four fee rates:
    • Scotland fee rate
    • England, Wales and Northern Ireland fee rate (Rest of the UK)
    • Republic of Ireland fee rate (ROI)
    • EU-EEA Pre/Settled Scotland fee rate
  • International fee rate consisting of two fee rates:
    • EU-EEA Overseas
    • Overseas/International
  • Online learning fee rate

Some online study programmes have the same tuition fee rate for Home Fee Rate and International Fee Rate. Others have different tuition fee rates for Home Fee Rate and International Fee Rate.

How we know your fee status

We will determine your tuition fee status based on information you supply about yourself during the application process.   

If we cannot determine your fee status automatically, we will ask you to complete an online fee status questionnaire and supply more information. In this case you will see a query fee status (‘Q’) until you have submitted the fee status questionnaire and we have been able to decide your fee status.   

Once you start your programme, your fee status cannot be changed. 

Work out your fee status

Our Fees and Student Support team provide guidance to help work out what your fee status is likely to be.

Tuition fee rates

Once you know your fee status, you can work out how much you will have to pay in tuition fees. 

Tuition fee rates

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