Fee status
Universities use different fee levels for UK (home) and international students, based on fee status.
Your fee status determines the amount you'll be asked to pay, as well as the types of bursaries and other support you'll have access to.
What determines fee status?
Your fee status is decided based on your nationality or immigration status, and where you usually live ('ordinary residence'). There are some exceptions for refugees and frontier workers.
Each university and authority makes its own decision about fee statuses. The governments of the four countries of the UK set out guidelines, which we refer to when making our assessments.
Are you eligible for home fee status?
You normally need to be a British Citizen or have indefinite leave to remain in the UK, and to have been ordinarily resident here for some years to be classified as a home student. Time spent in the UK for educational purposes is not counted as ordinary residence.
Students living in the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey are usually charged the same fee as UK students. EU citizens with settled or pre-settled UK status, and Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland, are eligible for a UK rate if the usual residency requirements are met.
Need some more help?
If you're not sure what your fee status is, you can find more information on the UKCISA website, or complete our fee status form:
- Fee status form (MS Word
, 36kb) - Fee status form (PDF
, 757kb) - Fee assessment form guidance notes (PDF , 93kb)
Returning your fee status form
Before enrolment
Email the form with 'Fee status assessment' as the subject line:
- ug-fee-assessment@york.ac.uk for undergraduate queries
- pg-admissions@york.ac.uk for postgraduate queries
After enrolment
Send your completed form:
- By post: Student Records and Visa Compliance, Student Services, University of York, York, YO10 5DD
- By email: student-records@york.ac.uk
- In person: Student Hub on Campus West
If you think your fee status is incorrect, send us a completed form as soon as possible. Our Admissions Policy states:
By accepting our offer of admission, applicants are accepting the University’s decision in relation to their fee status. This decision is made on the basis of the available evidence at the time.
Once candidates have enrolled with the University, decisions will normally only be changed where it can be shown that the initial fee assessment (based on the available evidence) was incorrect or, in certain cases, where a student’s circumstances have changed.
A change in fee status post enrolment is not guaranteed. Where applicants consider that our decision is incorrect, they should make every effort to query this prior to enrolment.