While most UK universities have increased the tuition fees they will charge international students next year, few have dared to increase them above the rate of inflation, new data reveals.
Experts said that institutions may have worried that trying to keep pace with inflation – currently nudging double figures in the UK and many other nations – would be a risky strategy in such a competitive market.
Figures from The Knowledge Partnership’s (TKP) Courses 360 database show that the majority of a sample of 154 public universities raised their full-time undergraduate international fees for 2023-24 entry, but only 18 (12 per cent) raised them by more than the average annual rate of inflation.
The data, which excludes medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine courses, those taught at satellite campuses and those done jointly with another university overseas, also reveals that about half of institutions raised their fees by between 2 and 5 per cent.
