Tuition Fees 2017/18 Postgraduate

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.

Please note that the fees below are per academic year.  The 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 2017/18 are different.  Continuing students on the same degree programme are protected from annual increases higher than 5% - please see the Protected Fee Schedule 2017/18

The Government has guaranteed EU students, both returning and those starting in the 2017-18 session, that their tuition fees will remain at the Home/EU level for the duration of their programme of study at SOAS.

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 2015/16
• Tuition Fees Postgraduate 2016/17

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)

Gender Studies (including Gender Studies and Law)

Band 1: All Other Master's subject areas not listed above (including MMus, Music and Development; Anthropology, Social Anthropology of Development, Migration and Diaspora, Anthropology of Media; Global Cinemas/Media, Media in Development, Media and the Middle East).

2 year full-time Programmes with Intensive Languages (including Advanced Chinese; Intensive South Asian Studies; Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali).  Please note that 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 research students should refer to the protected fee schedule

Postgraduate Taught Non-degree Students:  

Master's Fee Bands 2017 - 18

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