FAQs for Students, Teachers and Parents
DEL Information on Tuition Fees 2012/13
1. Are student fees going to be increased in Northern Ireland from 2012?
2. What will the 2012/13 fee level be for Northern Ireland students enrolling in Queen’s?
3. What is happening in the rest of the UK with regard to tuition fee levels?
5. But hasn’t Queen’s supported an increase in fees up to £9,000?
7. What fees will students from Great Britain be charged to study at Queen's?
Fees will not rise for Northern Ireland students enrolled at Queen’s, the University of Ulster, St Mary’s University College or Stranmillis University College, except in line with the rate of inflation.
2. What will the 2012/13 fee level be for Northern Ireland students enrolling in Queen’s?
From 2012/13 Queen's will charge £3,465 to students who normally live in Northern Ireland on full-time undergraduate programmes. Students will not have to pay upfront for tuition. For further information, visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/StudyatQueens/UndergraduateStudents/MoneyMatters/
England has decided to allow universities to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 per annum for students beginning their degree in the 2012/13 academic year; around 70% of English universities have declared they will charge the full £9,000 fee.
Wales has decided to set tuition fees that differentiate between Welsh students and those from other parts of the UK; while Scotland has followed suit, but has committed to charge no tuition fees for Scottish students. A number of Scottish universities have declared that they will charge students from other parts of the UK the full £9,000 fee.
Membership of the 20 leading research-intensive Russell Group universities does not oblige Queen’s to adopt any particular measure: Glasgow, Edinburgh and Cardiff are all members of the Russell Group and, as noted, the governments in Scotland and Wales have adopted their own distinctive approaches to the funding of higher education. Queen’s has consistently argued to local political representatives the need for a distinctive Northern Ireland solution to this issue.
No, for Queen’s, the key priority has always been to ensure appropriate levels of investment in higher education in Northern Ireland are maintained. This is essential if the higher education institutions (HEIs) are to maintain their competitiveness and thereby offer a world-class provision for future generations of Northern Ireland students. Increasing tuition fees is one way of maintaining investment levels (as in England); increased government funding is another.
Queen’s therefore welcomes the commitment given by the Northern Ireland Executive that, while maintaining tuition fees at their current level for the next four years, the £40m funding gap incurred by not raising fees, will also be plugged.
For Northern Ireland’s elected representatives to make this commitment is a real statement of intent for future generations of local students.
Students participating in a sandwich-year work or study placement which does not fall under the Erasmus programme, pay a reduced fee for that year. For students currently enrolled at Queen’s and who will participate in a non-Erasmus sandwich-year during 2011/12, will pay a fee of £665.
Currently, students participating in a study or work placement abroad under the Erasmus programme are entitled to a complete fee waiver for that year.
7. What fees will students from Great Britain be charged to study at Queen's?
From 2012/13 Queen's University Belfast will charge £9,000 to students who normally live in England, Scotland and Wales on full-time undergraduate programmes. Students will not have to pay upfront for tuition. For further information, visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/StudyatQueens/UndergraduateStudents/MoneyMatters/