Fees for home students

Standard fees for UK students starting in 2025/26 studying full-time are:

• £11,750 a year for non-laboratory courses (Band 1)
• £12,800 a year for subjects with significant laboratory study or workshop content (Band 2).

Standard fees for UK students starting in 2024/25 studying full-time are:

• £10,800 a year for non-laboratory courses (Band 1)
• £12,550 a year for subjects with significant laboratory study or workshop content (Band 2).

Although the majority of the University’s courses are charged at the standard Band 1 or Band 2 level, certain courses attract a premium course fee. These include Henley Business School courses. Please visit the Henley Business School website for full information.

Part-time fees are calculated at 50% of the standard fee, or pro rata for modular programmes.

A number of our courses will also require a deposit to be paid in order to secure your place. This will be stated on your offer of admission should it be required.

In the majority of cases, fees are payable in two instalments: 50% on enrolment and 50% on the first day of week 13 in Semester 1 of your studies. If you are approved for a UK government master’s loan, you can pay your tuition fees in three instalments.

Postgraduate research

Fees for postgraduate research students can be found on our Doctoral and Researcher College website.

If you completed your undergraduate degree with us, you're entitled to a discount on your master's degree at Reading. You'll automatically receive £1,500 off the cost of your full-time tuition fees, or if you're a part-time student studying over two years, you'll receive a £750 discount each year.

Find out more about tuition fees and your financial obligations as a student by reading the University's Fees Policy.

Most postgraduate students fund their studies through a mixture of government loans, savings, part-time work, and any scholarships and bursaries they are awarded.

You can currently borrow up to £12,167 through a repayable government loan scheme for master’s programmes starting on or after 1 August 2023. Loans are available for students:

• under the age of 60
• who don’t already have a master’s qualification or a higher level qualification, such as a PhD.

Please visit the government website for more information.

We also have an extensive range of master's scholarships available. Find out more on our master's scholarship page. 

There is also a plentiful supply of part-time work available on campus which can help with living costs. See Campus Jobs for more information.

If you spend a full academic year studying abroad or working on a placement as part of your master's degree, you’ll only pay partial tuition during the year away from Reading. This is currently set at 15% of the normal tuition fee and applies to home and international students.

You’ll still need to budget for local living costs (such as accommodation, food, travel, visa fees and medical insurance), which may be more expensive if you spend the year abroad. Home-fee students can apply to be considered for a placement bursary to help with expenses. 

This applies only to situations where the full year is spent abroad or on placement. Where only a part of the year is spent abroad or on placement, the full tuition fee is payable to the University of Reading as normal.

Following the UK Government’s announcement published on Monday 4 November 2024, the University of Reading undergraduate home tuition fees for 2025/26 entry have been revised.

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