Please note that fees are payable in full at enrolment. Tuition fees should be paid in pounds sterling (GBP). A fee payment by instalment option is available to self-funding students undertaking on-campus degree programmes.

The fees below are per academic year.

Please note that fees go up each year. 

2 year full-time programmes have 2 years of full-time fees. 

Some fee rates for students who enrolled on their degrees before 2016/17 are different.  Continuing students on the same degree programme are protected from annual increases higher than 5% - please see the Protected Fee Schedule 2016/17

Students who are formally sponsored or funded by educational loans should provide evidence of funding for the relevant year before enrolment to fees@soas.ac.uk 

• Tuition Fees Postgraduate 2014/15
• Tuition Fees Postgraduate 2015/16

Master's Degrees in:

Band 6: International Studies and Diplomacy; Globalisation and Multinational Corporations; Global Energy and Climate Policy

Band 5: LLM; Law (including Dispute and Conflict Resolution; Environmental Law and Sustainable Development; Law, Development and Globalisation; International and Comparative Legal studies)   

Band 4: Management (including International Management; Finance and Financial Law; Public Policy)

Band 3: Development Studies (including Central Asia; Violence, Conflict and Development; Migration, Mobility and Development; Globalisation and Development; Research for International Development; Labour, Social Movements and Development)

Economics (including Finance and Development; Development Economics; Political Economy of Development)

Politics (including State Society and Development); MRes Politics with Language (2 years full-time)

Band 2: Anthropology (including Social Anthropology of Development; Migration and Diaspora; Anthropology of Media)

Global Cinemas/Media (including Film and History in Media; Media in Development; Media and the Middle East)

MA Theory and Practice of Translation

Band 1: All Other MA's, MMus, and subject areas not listed above (including Music and Development; Global Creative and Cultural Industries; Postcolonial Studies;

2 year full-time Programmes with Intensive Languages (including Advanced Chinese; Intensive South Asian Studies; Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali) 2 year full-time programmes have 2 years of full-time fees - the fee in the second year will be higher than the fee for the first year (the full time fee below is for the first year only).

Research Degrees: 

Continuing Overseas fees status research students should refer to the protected fee schedule

Postgraduate Taught Non-degree Students:  

Master's Fee Bands 2016-17

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