27 September 2011
Dundee announces RUK Fees, more three-year degrees
The University of Dundee is to develop a range of specially designed three-year honours degree programmes which will be offered to Rest-of-UK (RUK) and Scottish students.
The move is part of the University’s approach to setting fee levels for RUK students, which will be £9000 per year, capped at £27,000 for a four-year course.
The first tranche of three-year honours programmes will be launched for entry in September 2012, with the intention being to expand their range to include all appropriate degree programmes in future years. Programmes likely to be available for 2012 include those in art & design and life sciences.
Appropriately qualified RUK students will continue to remain eligible for advanced entry to the second year of all existing programmes where such entry is currently permissible.
Where RUK students wish to take advantage of the benefits of a traditional four-year Scottish honours degree, or where a three-year option is not available, the total fee payable for the programme as a whole will be capped at £27,000.
The new three year programmes will also be available to Scottish students who gain the required entry qualifications (either through Advanced Highers or via articulation from Colleges of Further Education) consistent with the principles of the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework and emergent thinking in relation to the ‘learner journey’ in Scotland.
These new programmes will allow students to gain an honours degree in the same length of time as in the rest of the UK. This significantly reduces the total cost of a degree once living costs such as accommodation are factored in.
Dundee has consistently rated as one of the most cost-efficient cities in which to live as a student in the UK. The University of Dundee has in the past month been shortlisted as University of the Year by Times Higher Education and ranked as one of the world’s top 200 universities in the QS World Rankings.
'We fully appreciate the views of students and their families looking at the costs of attending University. By offering competitively priced three-year programmes, which of course mean a year’s less extra costs in living expenses such as accommodation, and combining this with very high academic standards we think we have a very attractive offer for students,' said Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University.
'Many of our other courses will continue to be offered on a four-year basis, where we will cap total fee costs at £27,000. However, we are actively working on developing a three-year option for many of these courses.'
A significant proportion of the additional fee income generated from the above changes will be used by the University to fund a generous package of bursaries and scholarships. These will be used primarily to attract students with high potential who might be deterred from undertaking a degree programme because of the cost and will primarily take the form of bursaries towards living costs rather than fee waivers.
The £27,000 cap will not apply to courses which are the same length as elsewhere in the UK, such as medicine, dentistry and architecture. The total fee applicable will therefore be comparable with the rest of the UK.
For media enquiries contact:
Roddy Isles
Head, Press Office
University of Dundee
Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN
TEL: 01382 384910
E-MAIL: r.isles@dundee.ac.uk
MOBILE: 07800 581902 |
