Undergraduate fees for current students

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This page outlines fees and fee rules for current year students, including those continuing on a course of study in a subsequent year. If you'll be starting a new undergraduate course at Essex for the first time in 2024-2025, please refer to our applicant pages for fee information

Current year fees

The fee bands and rates for new undergraduate students studying in 2023-2024 academic year are listed below.

Please be aware that these are the general fee bands covering the majority of courses however there are some exceptions in Health and Social Care and for Accelerated degrees. Check out full list of tuition fees for the relevant academic year for more information.

School/Department	Home fees	International fees
East 15 Edge Hotel School History HSC Language and Linguistics Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Philosophy and Art History Sociology	£9,250	£18,585
Essex Business School Law and Human Rights Economics Government Mathematical Sciences Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences	£9,250	£19,530
Life Sciences Psychology	£9,250	£21,050
Computer Science and Electronic Engineering	£9,250	£21,680
Oral Health Science	£9,250	£27,500

Courses with an integrated Study Abroad or Placement year

Home/EU and International students

First registered year (including repeat year students)	Study Abroad year	Placement year
2023-2024	15% of the standard fee for that year	20% of the standard fee for that year
2022-2023	15% of the standard fee for that year	20% of the standard fee for that year
2021-2022	15% of the standard fee for that year	20% of the standard fee for that year
2020-2021	No fee	20% of the standard fee for that year
2018-2019 and 2019-2020	15% of the standard fee for that year	20% of the standard fee for that year

Returning year fees

Students returning for a second or subsequent year of study will be notified of their tuition fees for the next year of study as part of the arrangements for Registration.

Annual fee changes

Any fee increases during your programme of study will be limited to the annual increase in the RPI-X index.

Increases in fees for full-time undergraduate students with a Home fee status remain subject to UK Government approval each year.
For continuing international undergraduate students who started in 2017-18 or earlier, your fees will increase by 3% for each academic year of study.
For continuing international undergraduate students who started in 2018-19 or later, your fees will increase by 5% for each academic year of study.

Tuition fee policies and how to pay

How to pay your fees and our fee payment policies.
We publish a full list of our tuition fees.

Funding your studies

There are various organisations which might be able to help you with funding.

Undergraduate funding sources.

For enquiries contact your Student Services Hub
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