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SamuelRSmith on 25 November 2010
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CrazyHorse said:
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Soleron said:
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 subsidising home students.


Not any more lol! $9000 in tuition fees is enough to fully fund a course.

Arrghhh, I was working in a building next to the protests at university yesterday, they even tried to storm it! Not sure what they hoped to achieve by occupying a building already full of university students!!

The problem with the rise in fees is that not all courses will be charging the same (depending on the level of cuts they face) and those which do need to charge the maximum may find their numbers significantly reduced because of that so I suspect a lot of the funding short fall may not be fully made up (but this is a whole other topic!!).


The price of the course will reflect the demand. If the price falls below costs, then it will be inefficient for those courses to remain running.

Excatly, which is where the lack of international students will really hurt universities as some courses, departments and even whole universities may shut down as they will not be able to make up the funding shortfall. Even those courses able to continue will face a reduction in both financial input and academic output by a reduction in international students (especially in the area of postgraduate studies). Of course it is more complicated than that and there and there are a number of wide ranging, associated issues but as I said, that is a whole other (and very large) topic!


I wasn't aware that international students received the subsidized rate, to start with.

EDIT:

Tuition fees in the U.K. vary from institution to institution, and also from region to region, but the cost for an overseas undergraduate at St. Andrews for the academic year 2009-10 would be about $19,000.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-college-students-explore-uk-options-2010-11-25