Tuition fee status
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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
Most students on an online learning programmes pay the same fee rate with the exception of EFI and PhD online degree programmes. Students on these programmes will pay the fee rate (home or international) based on their assigned fee status.
For postgraduate degrees, fee status is divided into:
- Scotland fee rate
- Scotland fee rate
- EU-EEA Pre/Settled Scotland fee rate
- Rest of UK (RUK) fee rate
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland fee rate (Rest of the UK)
- Republic of Ireland fee rate (ROI)
- International/EU fee rate
- EU-EEA Overseas fee rate
- Overseas fee rate
- Online learning 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.
This article was published on 2025-10-07