Tuition Fees

The UK and Welsh Governments recently announced universities could charge a maximum of £9,790 for the 2026/27 academic year, pending legislative approval in Wales. If approval is given, we intend to charge £9,790 per year for courses beginning in the 2026/27 academic year and will confirm this here. Please note, Aberystwyth reserves the right to increase fees in future years in line with UK and Welsh Government approval. 

Please note Irish nationals will continue to be eligible for home fee status and support by the Welsh Government under the Common Travel Area arrangement.

Most international students are eligible to apply for the International Accommodation Award, which means accommodation costs can be included in your tuition fees.

For international undergraduate students, fee levels are frozen at the level of entry for subsequent study years. This means you know exactly what your fee levels will be for the duration of your studies with Aberystwyth University.

The distance learning tuition fees for the 2026-27 academic year are shown below. Please note that tuition fees are subject to an annual increase.

The tuition fee for the Foundation year of classroom-based courses for the 2026 academic year is £5,760. All other years on this programme will be charged at the standard undergraduate fee. Please see a list of relevant schemes below:

Accounting And Finance (N40F)

Business And Management (N12F)

Business Economics (L11F)

Business Finance (N31F)

Criminology (M90F)

Economics (L10F)

Education (X30F)

English Literature and Creative Writing (QW3F)

History (V10F)

International Relations (F42L)

International Relations and Military History (F2VL)

Law (M10F)

Marketing (N50F)

Sociology (L30F)

The fee for the Foundation Year on all other schemes will be the same as the for Bachelor's degrees, which, pending confirmation from Welsh Government, is likely to be £9,790 for courses beginning in September 2026. All subsequent years will also be charged at the standard undergraduate fee, which may change for future years.

Following Welsh Government confirmation of the increase in the maximum fee that can be charged to UK and Irish full-time undergraduate students from £9,250 to £9,535, we will implement this change to fees for applicable students for the 2025/26 academic year. We have put together an FAQ page that you can find here.

Please note Irish nationals will continue to be eligible for home fee status and support by the Welsh Government under the Common Travel Area arrangement.

Most international students are eligible to apply for the International Accommodation Award, which means accommodation costs can be included in your tuition fees.

For international undergraduate students, fee levels are frozen at the level of entry for subsequent study years. This means you know exactly what your fee levels will be for the duration of your studies with Aberystwyth University.

Please note that fees are subject to an annual increase effective from 1^st August. The fees above are valid for students purchasing their modules in September 2025 (academic year 2025-26).

Following the UK Government decision to lower the maximum fee level for Foundation Years for UK and Irish students following classroom-based subjects, the fee for the Foundation Year on the following schemes will be £5,760 from Academic Year 2025/26:

Accounting And Finance (N40F)

Business And Management (N12F)

Business Economics (L11F)

Business Finance (N31F)

Criminology (M90F)

Economics (L10F)

Education (X30F)

English Literature and Creative Writing (QW3F)

History (V10F)

International Relations (F42L)

International Relations and Military History (F2VL)

Law (M10F)

Marketing (N50F)

Sociology (L30F)

The fee level for the Foundation Year on all other schemes will be at the maximum Government fee level for Bachelor's degrees.