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Tuition fees 2012: what are the universities charging?

Universities are announcing their tuition fees for students in 2012. How much are universities planning to charge?
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Oxford University is amongst the universities planning on charging the maximum £9000 tuition fee. Photograph: Robert Judges/Alamy

Here is our list of universities and how much they intend to charge in tuition fees from next autumn.

Last week it was announced that Welsh universities have been barred from charging maximum fees unless they re-think their plans to encourage students from a poorer background to take up a place at their institution. Jessica Shepherd has written:

All 10 Welsh universities and four of the country's colleges want to charge annual fees of more than £4,000 by autumn 2012. But to do this, they had to submit plans to subsidise more low-income students. These plans had to be endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. However, the quango has told the 14 institutions their plans were not ambitious enough, and that they must rewrite them if they are to charge higher fees.

A growing number of English universities plan to charge £9,000 per year – the maximum possible. This has raised fears that the government will have to claw back funds from universities – possibly by reducing the number of places on degree courses – if the majority of institutions charge the maximum. It was revealed last month that all 123 universities and university colleges in England have planned on charging £6000 or more.

The latest universities to announce their 2012 tuition fee plans are:

• The University of West London has announced that it will charge a standard fee of £7,500. Those taking specialist art courses will be charged £7,700 and those planning on specialist music or performance courses will face the higher fee of £8,200.

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London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) became the first Russell Group university to not plan the maximum £9,000 fee for students in 2012 when it announced its fee plans earlier this month. In a narrow vote by the academic board, the institution in the same group as elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, chose £8,500 fees.

MPs voted in December to allow fees for UK students on undergraduate courses to rise from £3,350 a year to £6,000, and £9,000 in "exceptional cases."

But ministers assumed that universities would charge different levels of fees and that the average, across more than 130 institutions, would be £7,500.

The government pays students' tuition fees in the first instance. Graduates pay the government back when they are earning more than £21,000. If the average fee is higher than ministers anticipated, the government will end up paying more up front, and this may not be sustainable.

So far only a handful of institutions (announced so far) have published plans to charge less than the maximum.

Vince Cable, Business Secretary, announced in Parliament:

the introduction of a fee cap of £6,000, rising to £9,000 in exceptional circumstances

Universities that charge more than £6,000 must set out targets to widen their pool of students beyond white, middle-class teenagers. These must be agreed by the government's access watchdog, the Office for Fair Access.

Universities and colleges had until Tuesday 19 April 2011 to submit their access agreements to Offa. They will then assess their agreements and announce all that have been approved by 11 July 2011 - so the fees below are the amount universities are intending to charge. These will be updated as further universities publish their plans.

The latest Guardian University ranking tables were published last week showing that the University of Cambridge had over taken Oxford to take first place on the league table. We have added in the new rankings onto our table and spreadsheets.

Data summary

University tuition fees 2012-13

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University
Group
Max tuition Fee 2012
Min tuition fee, 2012 (if set)
Guardian uni table ranking 2012
Aberystwyth University Alliance 9,000   50
Anglia Ruskin Million + 8,300   91
Aston   9,000   34
Bangor   9,000 79
Bath 1994 Group 9,000   14
Bath Spa Million + 9,000   65
Birkbeck   9,000 6,000  
Birmingham Russell 9,000   24
Birmingham City Million + 9,000 7,500 90
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln Guild HE 7,500    
Blackburn College (University Centre)   7,000    
Bolton Million + 8,400 6,300 116
Bournemouth University Alliance 9,000 8,200 42
Bradford University Alliance 9,000   86
Brighton   9,000   73
Brighton and Sussex Medical School   9,000    
Bristol Russell 9,000   25
Brunel   9,000   82
Bucks New Million + 8,000 7,500 112
Cambridge Russell 9,000   1
Cardiff Russell 9,000   39
Chester   9,000   80
Chichester   8,500   58
City 9,000   22
College of Law   9,000    
Coventry Million + 9,000 4,600 63
Cumbria Guild HE 8,400    
De Montfort University Alliance 9,000   93
Derby Million + 7,995 6,995 94
Durham 1994 Group 9,000   8
East London Million + 9,000   115
Edge Hill   9,000   78
Essex 1994 Group 9,000   39
Exeter 1994 Group 9,000   11
Glamorgan University Alliance 9,000   68
Gloucestershire Million + 8,250   61
Goldsmiths 1994 Group 9,000   62
Harper Adams University College Guild HE 9,000    
Hertfordshire University Alliance 8,500 7,400 72
Huddersfield University Alliance 7,950   53
Hull   9,000   75
Imperial College Russell 9,000   10
Keele 9,000   54
Kent   9,000   23
King's College London Russell 9,000   30
Kingston Million + 9,000 8,500 92
Lancaster 1994 Group 9,000   7
Leeds Russell 9,000   37
Leeds Met Million + 8,500   102
Leeds Trinity Guild HE 8,000   84
Leicester 1994 Group 9,000   17
Lincoln University Alliance 9,000   57
Liverpool Russell 9,000   49
Liverpool Hope   8,250  
Liverpool John Moores University Alliance 9,000   111
London Met Million + 9,000 4,500 119
London South Bank Million + 8,450 5,950 100
Loughborough 1994 Group 9,000   9
LSE Russell 8,500   4
Manchester Russell 9,000   41
Manchester Metropolitan University Alliance 9,000 8,000 108
Marjon (St Mark and St John) Plymouth Guild HE 7,800   109
Middlesex Million + 9,000   75
Newcastle Russell 9,000   31
Newman University Colleg Guild HE 8,400   97
Newport, University of Wales University Alliance 9,000 114
Northumbria University Alliance 8,500   55
Norwich University College of the Arts   8,500    
Nottingham Russell 9,000   19
Nottingham Trent   8,500   67
Oxford Russell 9,000   2
Oxford Brookes University Alliance 9,000   42
Plymouth University Alliance 9,000   47
Portsmouth University Alliance 8,500   85
Queen Mary, University of London 1994 Group 9,000   36
Reading 1994 Group 9,000   32
Roehampton Million + 8,250 7,500 97
Royal Agricultural College Guild HE 9,000    
Royal Holloway 1994 Group 9,000   35
Royal Veterinary College   9,000 7,500  
Salford University Alliance 9,000 8,000 109
Sheffield Russell 9,000   33
Sheffield Hallam University Alliance 8,500   65
SOAS 1994 Group 9,000   13
Southampton Russell 9,000   28
Southampton Solent Million + 7,800   112
St Mary's University College Guild HE 8,000   82
St. Georges   9,000    
Staffordshire Million + 8,890 7490 77
Sunderland Million + 8,500 7,800 48
Surrey 1994 Group 9,000   19
Sussex 1994 Group 9,000   11
Teesside University Alliance 8,500   60
UCA Guild HE 8,500    
UCL Russell 9,000   5
UEA 1994 Group 9,000   18
University Campus Suffolk   8,000 7,500 117
University College Falmouth Guild HE 9,000   46
University of Central Lancashire Million + 9,000   70
University of the Arts London   9,000    
UWE Bristol University Alliance 9,000   59
Warwick Russell 9,000   6
West London Million + 8,200 7,500  
Westminster   9,000   87
Winchester Guild HE 8,500   69
Wolverhampton Million + 8,500    
Worcester Guild HE 8,100   105
York St John Guild HE 8,500   96

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