The impact of tuition fee increases in England on EU international undergraduate student mobility

In the presentation, we will discuss the findings of the project on the impact of tuition fee increases in England on EU international undergraduate student mobility. First, we compared changes in EU undergraduate enrolments in England, which trebled its tuition fee levels in 2012/13 from £3,375 to £9,000, with those observed in Scotland, which does not charge tuition fees to EU undergraduate students. Second, we look at the changes in enrolment by field of study and type of higher education institution by EU countries. Our analysis shows that, on average, English universities suffered a sudden drop in EU enrolments in 2012/13 but recovered their pre-2012 enrolment levels in subsequent academic years. We observe that those English universities regarded as less prestigious were the ones that experienced the sharpest decline and took longer to recover their pre-2012 numbers. Still, we found different student mobility patterns when examining differences between EU countries.