Fees & funding

Our full-time tuition fees for UK/EU students for the 2020/21 academic year range from £6,000 for a Foundation degree to £9,250 for a Bachelor’s degree at one of our campuses or Partner Colleges.

For more information about fees and costs for specific courses, visit our course pages – here, you will also find our fees for Integrated Master’s degrees.

If you spend a year on a work placement as part of your course, your fee for this year will be significantly lower at £850.

Our BU fees commitment ensures that whichever fee you start your course on, it will remain the same for the duration of your honours degree course – irrespective of any future changes in government policy or rises in maximum fee levels.

Loans

As a UK or EU student, you are entitled to certain financial support from the government in the form of loans. Find out more about tuition fee loans.

Studying part-time?

If you are studying your course part-time, your annual fee will be charged at half of the full-time rate for each level of study. On a full-time course, there are three levels with one completed each year; for part-time students, you generally complete one level every two years.

For example, if the full-time fee for your course is £9,250 per year and you are completing the course on a part-time basis – taking six years instead of three – you would pay £1,541.66 per year, equating to £4,625 per level of study.

Find out more about the tuition fee changes

A useful and impartial guide to tuition fee changes has been produced by Brightside – an independent charity that provides information to schools, colleges and universities enabling young people to access education and career pathways. 

EU students studying with us in 2020/21 will continue to pay the same fees as domestic students for the duration of their degree as well as being able to access student finance loans. 

There are a number of ways for you to pay your fees each year. You can choose to pay in a single lump sum, or split the cost into three equal instalments and can make your payments in person, by post or online.

Find out more about paying your fees. 

Your tuition fee covers expenses associated with your course, including tuition materials, access to facilities and field trips. This will include:

• Consumables for lab and field-based teaching activity
• UK fieldwork and associated travel costs
• Lab coats, glasses and standard enclosed headphones (where applicable)
• First-set of consumables, such as a DVD or memory stick.

There are certain things associated with your studies that you will be expected to pay for, which may include:

• Text books
• Printing and photocopying
• UK telephone and travel costs for interviews, coursework and securing placements
• Optional and experiential fieldwork in the UK and abroad, and associated travel costs
• Outdoor wear and footwear suitable for fieldwork (where applicable)
• Inter-campus travel.

We've done our best to highlight on our individual course pages the expected additional costs you may encounter while studying at BU to help you understand our provision and what you need to budget for.

If you're starting a Nursing, Midwifery or Allied Health Professional pre-registration course in England after 1 August 2017, you'll need a Tuition Fee and Maintenance Loan as the funding has changed for NHS courses. Find out more on our Funding for NHS courses webpage.

New funding for 2020: Nursing, midwifery and other allied health professional students on courses from September 2020 may be eligible for non-repayable government funding of at least £5,000 a year.

Students eligible for the funding:

• Nursing (Mental Health Nursing students may be eligible for an additional £1,000 as it has been confirmed as a shortage specialism.)
• Midwifery
• Paramedic
• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy

Students will still access the Student Loans Company for tuition and maintenance loans, plus the NHS Business Services Authority to apply for the existing Learning Support Fund.

Further details on the funding will be available in early 2020. Find out more information about the funding on the gov.uk website.

Our annual full-time tuition fee for international (non-EU) students joining us in 2020/21 is between £14,100 and £15,000 for an undergraduate (BA/BSc/BEng) degree delivered at one of our campuses or partner colleges. 

For more information about the fees applicable to specific courses, please see your offer letter if you already have one. Alternatively, visit our course pages.

If you are studying a course that includes a work placement, making it four years long instead of three, the placement year carries a much lower fee – currently £850.

We operate a price-freezing policy for all of our international fee-paying students. This means that you will pay the same annual fee (with the exception of your placement year) for the duration of your course at BU, allowing you to budget more effectively.

This applies to all undergraduate students who are classed as international for fee purposes and the amount you pay will be based on your first year’s tuition fee.

There are a number of ways for you to pay your fees each year. You can choose to pay in a single lump sum, or split the cost into three equal instalments and can make your payments in person, by post or online.

Find out more about paying your fees. 

Your tuition fee covers all the expenses associated with your course, including tuition materials, access to facilities and field trips. This will include:

• Consumables for lab and field-based teaching activity, such as chemicals and other materials
• UK fieldwork and associated travel costs
• Lab coats, glasses and standard enclosed headphones (where applicable)
• First-set of consumables, such as a DVD or memory stick.

There are certain things associated with your studies that you will be expected to pay for, which may include:

• Text books
• Printing and photocopying
• UK telephone and travel costs for interviews, coursework and securing placements
• Optional and experiential fieldwork in the UK and abroad, and associated travel costs
• Outdoor wear and footwear suitable for fieldwork (where applicable)
• Inter-campus travel.

For more information about the fees applicable to specific courses, please see your offer letter if you already have one, or visit our course pages.