Tuition Fee Costs

Home students starting in 2024 entry

£9,250 is the maximum fee that we are currently permitted to charge for home fee-paying students. This is set by the UK government.
As a general principle, you should expect the tuition fee to increase in each subsequent academic year of your course, subject to government regulations on fee increases and in line with inflation.

Home students starting in 2025 entry

In November 2024 the government increased the maximum fee level to £9,535 for 2025/26. It is expected that Parliament will approve the Government’s proposed increase in January and we intend to confirm our Home fees at this higher level following this.
As a general principle, you should expect the tuition fee to increase in each subsequent academic year of your course, subject to government regulations on fee increases and in line with inflation.

Students undertaking a placement year that replaces a year of study at Newcastle will pay:

• students studying for a full year overseas or on an ERASMUS work placement - £1,385
• students on a non-ERASMUS industrial placement year - £1,850
• students on a placement year as part of a four-year Bachelor's degree, or as part of a five-year Integrated Master's degree - £1,385

Tuition fees for overseas students will vary according to your chosen programme of study. New students can find out the cost of tuition fees on the relevant course page.

Undergraduate students undertaking a placement year will pay the same fee as home fee paying students, depending upon the first year of entry to your programme of study.

If you are undertaking a placement year as part of your Undergraduate degree programme you will pay a reduced fee for the placement year. You will keep your student status during the placement year.

Students on a non-Turing industrial placement year that is fully assessed and contributes to the final degree classification, replacing a year of study in Newcastle. 

£1,850 

Students studying for a full year overseas, or on a Turing work placement that is fully assessed and contributes to the final degree classification, replacing a year of study in Newcastle. 

OR 

Students on work placement or study abroad years that are additional to the standard duration of the degree and, if assessed, the assessment does not contribute to the final degree classification 

£1,385 

Retaining student status (as a registered student) allows you access to University and NUSU resources:

• Library resources (required to complete your assignments)
• Student Counselling Service
• Careers Service
• Chaplaincy
• Student Wellbeing
• Students’ Union Advice centre
• Sports facilities
• IT account and services

This is in addition to the ongoing administrative, academic and pastoral support provided by either your school or the Careers Service, before, during and after your placement year.  For further information visit the Careers Service website, which includes information on additional costs and who will manage your placement.

Wider student benefits also include:

• Council Tax exemption
• access to Student Loans
• reduced travel costs for students working in London
• student discounts

Postgraduate tuition fees are payable for each year of your programme of study. They can vary from stage to stage according to your programme of study.

Newcastle University charges tuition fees by academic year. If you begin your studies mid-year, you need only pay the proportion of your tuition fee due to cover the period to the end of the academic year. You should also expect that the fee due in September, at the start of the next academic year, will be higher than in the previous year, due to an inflationary increase.

New students can find out the cost of tuition fees for the first year of study on the relevant course page.

View individual Postgraduate course pages to see fees for the first year.

The following are for research programmes with a considerable element of high-cost laboratory work and may be added at the head of school’s discretion.

• Band 2a premium - £3,700
• Band 2b premium - £7,400
• Band 2c premium - £9,500
• Band 3 premium - £13,200

Band 4 premiums can also be applied and are determined on an individual basis depending on the costs of the research project.

Research degree candidates (registered on Doctoral &Mphil programmes) completing their minimum period of candidature

Candidates who have completed their minimum candidature are regarded as being pending submission candidates. Those who request to extend beyond their maximum candidature are termed extended submission candidates.

Pending submission candidates who have completed their minimum candidature, but who still require access to significant resources (e.g. access to laboratory and/or workspace facilities), to actively progress their research must register and pay the normal tuition fee for the programme. See (i) below.

Pending submission candidates who no longer require access to significant resources will, after minimum candidature and for one year only, pay a reduced pending submission fee. See (ii) below.

Extended submission candidates who no longer require access to significant resources will pay the fee listed in (iii) below.

It should be noted that if submission is earlier than the minimum prescribed period, the fees will still be required to be paid for the whole candidature.

Tuition fee rates

• (i) all candidates requiring full facilities and support pay, whether within or outside of their candidature - the normal tuition fee for the programme
• (ii) pending submission candidates requiring reduced support, part-time and full-time, who do not fall into category (i) above - £0**
• (iii) extended submission candidates, part-time and full-time, who do not fall into category (i) above - £2,750

** Note: Candidates who are not actively engaged in continued research, and who have completed their minimum candidature, will be charged a zero fee for their Pending Submission Year. The decision about whether a candidate is eligible for the zero fee will be made on an individual basis, by the Faculty Dean of Postgraduate Studies. Candidates who are deemed to be still engaged in active research will pay a further full year fee.

The writing up fee for all postgraduate taught students (including MRes, MLitt and MMus programmes) is:

• full time £900
• part time £450

Writing up fee after the completion of the period of full-time or part-time registration prescribed by the regulations.

Undergraduate students

You will be charged to register and attend a repeat year or part year of study, as follows:

• if registering to repeat more than 60 credits in the academic year you will pay the appropriate full-time fee
• if registering to repeat 60 credits or less in the academic year you will pay the appropriate fee for the number of credits taken

Postgraduate students

If you are repeating a year or part year of study you will pay the annual fee on a pro-rata basis. This fee will be based on the number of credits you are repeating, measured as whole modules. If you are repeating only part of a module, you will be charged the entire module fee.