英国硕士国际生费用现近年最大涨幅

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The Knowledge Partnership has been publishing our Tuition Fees Benchmarking Tool since 2012 so it is really interesting to compare the results from the survey with the published fees. TKP collect the published fees (both International and UK/EU), for all university courses in the UK at both undergraduate and postgraduate taught level and as such can provide a more accurate view of the trends in fees. Examining the data indicates that International fees for classroom and lab based courses have increased by around 5% each year since 2017/18, not just in 2018/19 or 2020/21. The percentage increase figures reported in the article are different to the increases we see using the data in the Fees Benchmarking Tool. For classroom based courses international fees increased by 5.1% in 2017/18, 4.8% in 2018/19 and 4.9% in 2020/21. A similar increase can be seen in lab based courses: 5.2% in 2017/18, 4.3% in 2018/19 and 4.6% in 2020/21. This indicates that fees at universities have not increased in 2020/21 by any more than in previous years. For MBAs the picture is slightly more complicated. Just over a third of universities (36%) offering an MBA charge the same fee to both International and UK/EU students. Using the benchmarking tool we can see a steady increase in MBA fees, that, in recent years, is broadly in line with the increase in fees for classroom and lab based programmes. (For international fees: 2.5% 2017/18, 4.6% in 2018/19 and 5.0% in 2020/21). The final thoughts we have are around the timing for fees setting. As the article points out the fees for 2020/21 would have been decided before the covid-19 pandemic hit the UK. In our experience most universities publish their fees between September and January for the following academic year, which means the decision making process around this happens much earlier in Spring, so the fees for 2020/21 would have been set in 2019, up to a year before the pandemic when there was no indication that the 2020/21 academic year would be any different to 2019/20. The fees setting process for 2021/22 will have been taking place during lockdown so it will be interesting to see whether or not universities choose to increase fees by more than inflation or to hold or decrease their fees as THE are reporting is happening in the US.