Undergraduate Tuition Fees
These are the tuition fees charged per year for undergraduate courses including BA, BSc, Foundation Degree and Integrated Masters.
Whether you're charged the Home/EU or International tuition fee depends on your fee status.
Funding your tuition fees and living costs
How you'll pay for a course and fund the other costs related to studying are important to consider. See our example living costs to get an idea of how your living costs might look while studying at UAL.
- Find out about loans, grants, scholarship and bursaries available for Home/EU fee status students.
- Find out about loans and scholarships for International fee status students.
2019/20 Home/EU tuition fees
Most full-time students would be charged the following tuition fees. Part-time fees are pro-rata to the full-time fees.
New students
| Students starting their course in 2019/20 | £9,250 |
Continuing students who started their course in 2017 or 2018
| Continuing students | £9,250 |
| Sandwich (work placement) year | £1,850 |
ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year | £1,385, unless there are changes to government or ERASMUS policy |
| Repeating units, transferred course or returning to study after taking time out. | Contact your Programme Administrator |
Continuing students who started their course between 2012 and 2016
| Continuing students | £9,000 |
| Sandwich (work placement) year | £1,800 |
| ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year | £1,350, unless there are changes to government or ERASMUS policy |
| Repeating units, transferred course or returning to study after taking time out | Contact your Programme Administrator |
2019/20 International tuition fees
Note that the following tuition fees are for the 2019/20 academic year only, and may increase by up to 5% in subsequent years of a student’s course.
| Students starting a course in 2019 | £19,930 |
| Students who started in 2018 | £19,930 |
| Students who started in 2017 | £19,160 |
| Students who started in 2016 | £18,970 |
| Students who started in 2015 | £17,920 |
| Students who started in 2014 | £17,310 |
| ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year | 20% of the standard fee rate in the relevant row above |
| Sandwich (work placement) year | 20% of the standard fee rate in the relevant row above |
| Repeating units, transferred course or returning to study after taking time out. | Contact your Programme Administrator |
2019/20 Islands tuition fees
Students from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man are charged at the same rate as Home/EU fee status students if they're being funded by their island’s authority for higher education.
If you're not being funded by your island’s authority for higher education, your fee status will be assessed by the University. Depending on the outcome of the fee status assessment, you may be charged either the Home/EU or International fees, .
See the UKCISA website for more detailed information.
Tuition fees for 2018/19
Home/EU
Most students would be charged the following tuition fees in the 2018/19 academic year:
| Full-time students who start their course in 2018, and those who started their current course in 2017 | £9,250, subject to an inflationary increase in subsequent years of a student’s course, if permitted by government rules |
| Full-time students who started their current course between 2012 and 2016 inclusive | £9,000 |
| Part-time students | Pro rata to full-time students |
However, in the following circumstances, the tuition fee can vary from those shown above:
| Students on a sandwich (work placement) year, whose course started in 2017 | £1,850 |
| Students on a sandwich (work placement) year, whose course started between 2012 and 2016 inclusive | £1,800 |
Students on an ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year, whose course started in 2017 | £1,385, unless there are changes to government or ERASMUS policy |
| Students on an ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year, whose course started between 2012 and 2016 inclusive | £1,350, unless there are changes to government or ERASMUS policy |
| Students who will be repeating units, have transferred course or will be returning to their course after taking time out. | Contact your Programme Administrator |
International
Note that the following tuition fees are for the 2018/19 academic year only, and may increase by up to 5% in subsequent years of a student’s course.
| Students starting a course in 2018 | £19,350 |
| Students who started in 2017 | £18,600 |
| Students who started in 2016 | £18,420 |
| Students who started in 2015 | £17,400 |
| Students who started in 2014 | £16,810 |
| Students on an ERASMUS or outgoing study abroad year | 20% of the standard fee rate in the relevant row above |
| Students on a sandwich (work placement) year | 20% of the standard fee rate in the relevant row above |
| Students who will be repeating units, have transferred course or will be returning to their course after taking time out. | Contact your Programme Administrator |
Islands
Students from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man are charged at the same rate as Home/EU fee status students if they're being funded by their island’s authority for higher education.
If you're not being funded by your island’s authority for higher education, your fee status will be assessed by the University. Depending on the outcome of the fee status assessment, you may be charged either the Home/EU or International fees, .
See the UKCISA website for more detailed information.