UK unis look to transition scholarships and discounts to maintain EU numbers

Posted date: 24 Feb 2021

Individual universities in the UK are introducing scholarships for students from countries in the European Union in a bid to maintain enrolments from the continent following their loss of home fee status. Institutions have launched “transition” programs for EU domiciled students starting courses in the 2021/22 academic year, which mean they will be offered fees equivalent to home students, or have revealed automatic scholarships offering fee discounts. Others have extended eligibility criteria for international scholarships to include students from EU countries. Cost appears to be the biggest factor among EU students overall when it comes to studying abroad – and when it comes to concerns about changes from 2021 onwards.

Around 7.5% of students at the University of Southampton were from within the EU in 2019/20, hosting 1,240 undergraduate and 460 postgraduate students from the region. It is one higher education institution that has announced an EU scholarship, offering £5,000 fee reduction to undergraduate and postgraduate students. According to HESA statistics for the 2019/20 academic year, 53 higher education providers in the UK enrolled more than 1,000 students from EU countries. Growth in international enrolments was from non-EU countries in 2019/20. University College London, King’s College London and Coventry University had the most EU students, enrolling 4,880, 4,400 and 3,820 EU students in 2019/20, respectively.

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