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Tuition fee implications for students paying the international rate of tuition fee

Once you fully enrol onto your programme of study, you become  liable to pay tuition fees.  A changes to your study can affect your tuition fee liability and the amount you are required to pay.

Tuition Fee payments and liability are managed by the Fees Office and they can be contacted by email at fees@qmul.ac.uk.

The following information is for students paying the international rate of tuition fee.

Interrupting your studies

This information is taken from the Queen Mary University of London Tuition Fee Regulations. 

The following table explains what you will have to pay depending on when you interrupt your studies and when your school agrees you can return. 

Fee liability following an interruption

Start of interruption

Resuming study at the start of semester 1 the following academic year

Resuming study at the start of semester 2, the following academic year

Interrupting at any time during semester 1:
You will be liable for 50% of your tuition fee for this academic year and…

You will be liable for the whole tuition fee for the following academic year.

You will be liable for 50% of the tuition fee for the following academic year

Interrupting at any time during semester 2:

You will be liable for 100% of your tuition fee for this academic year and…

You will be liable for the whole tuition fee for the following academic year.

You will be liable for 50% of the tuition fee for the following academic year.

To find out if you are liable for a refund or tuition fee for future years, check the Tuition Fee Regulations.

Retaking in attendance 

You may be retaking all or part of an academic year. Normally you will pay the tuition fee of the new cohort you are joining in your retake year. However, if you are retaking due to pregnancy or disability, instead you would normally be allowed to pay the same rate of tuition fee that you paid in your previous academic year, plus the annual inflationary fee increase. The amount of this increase is confirmed by the Fees Office each June. 

Resitting out of Attendance 

You do not usually have to pay tuition fees during your period out of attendance and there are no resit fees. 

Withdrawal 

This information is taken from the Queen Mary University of London Tuition Fee Regulations. 

The following table explains what your fee liability will be, depending on when you withdraw from your programme.  

Fee liability following withdrawal  

When you withdraw

Your fee liability

Withdrawing at any time during semester 1

You will be liable for 50% of your tuition fees for the current academic year.

Withdrawing at any time during semester 2

You will be liable for 100% of your tuition fees for the current academic year.

 

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