2025-26
Annual Fees
5.1 The fees payable for the current session can be found on the University website. The fee is for registration, for tuition, for the use of laboratories (except that additional bench fees may be payable on some postgraduate programmes) and for one entry to the assessments appropriate to the course.
Payment
5.2 All fees are payable on Registration. As of 1st March 2025, the University no longer accepts direct bank transfer payments from students. Payments must only be made by one of the University approved payment methods, details of which can be found on the University website. Students who do not meet their obligation to pay tuition fees by due dates may incur financial and non-financial penalties.
5.3 Students who have not completed both academic and financial registration, and arranged payment of fees, prior to starting their programme or course each academic year shall not be permitted to attend their programmes of study and will be withdrawn.
Definition of an International Student for Fee Purposes
5.4 In accordance with The Education (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2022, higher (international) levels of fee are payable by students who do not have a ‘relevant connection’ with Scotland.
5.5 Students who have a ‘relevant connection’ will be charged the home levels of fee. In order to establish this ‘relevant connection’, certain elements are required, as follows:
a) the student has been ordinarily resident in the UK throughout the preceding three year period from the ‘relevant date’ before the start of their course. If the course starts in the period:
1 August to 31 December, the relevant date is 1 August in that year;
1 January to 31 March, the relevant date is 1 January in that year;
1 April to 30 June, the relevant date is 1 April in that year;
1 July to 31 July, the relevant date is 1 July in that year.
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b) the student has not been resident therein, during any part of that three-year period, for the primary purpose of receiving full-time education; and
c) any international applicant who satisfies the ordinarily resident criteria in (a) and (b) must also have settled status in the United Kingdom (i.e., there must be no restriction on the length of stay in the UK).
Conditions (a), (b) and (c) must be satisfied in order that the student may establish the ‘relevant connection’, and be liable for the home level of fee.
5.6 Excepted Students. There are certain categories of ‘excepted students’ who, although they do not have a ‘relevant connection’ with Scotland are liable to pay only the home rates of fee. These categories are outlined in our Fee Status Policy.
5.7 The fee paying status of a student determined at the time of admission to a degree programme will not change during the duration of that programme, apart from changes in legislation or changes in circumstances where current legislation requires that the status be changed, such as the award of refugee status.