Tuition Fees 2019/20 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 2019/20 are different.  Continuing students on the same degree programme are protected from annual increases higher than 5% - please see the Protected Fee Schedule 2019/20

The Government has guaranteed EU students, both returning and those starting in the 2018-19 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 2016/17
• Tuition Fees Postgraduate 2017/18
• Tuition Fees Postgraduate 2018/19

Master's Degrees in:

Band 6: International Studies & Diplomacy; Globalisation, Corporations & Policy; Global Energy & Climate Policy

Band 5: LLM; MRes; MAs in Law

(including Law and Gender; Environmental Law & Sustainable Development; Law, Development & Globalisation)  

Band 4: Management

(including International Management; Finance; Finance & Financial Law; Public Financial Management; Public Policy and Management)

Band 3: Development Studies, Economics and Politics

Development Studies (including Violence, Conflict & Development; Globalisation & Development; Migration, Mobility & Development; Labour, Social Movements & Development;)

Economics (including International Finance & Development; Development Economics; Political Economy of Development);

Politics (including State Society and Development)

Band 2: Gender Studies

(including Gender Studies and Law) 

Band 1: All Other Master's subject areas not listed above

(including Social Anthropology of Development, Migration & Diaspora; Media in Development; Music & Development; Global Creative and Cultural Industries; Area Studies; Contemporary Studies; Postcolonial Studies; 2 Year Full-time Programmes with Intensive Language; MMus

Research Degrees: 

Continuing research students should refer to the protected fee schedule

Postgraduate Associate Students:  

Master's Structure: 4 taught courses x 30 credits, dissertation x 60 credits

*1/6 Band 1 fee per full module; 1/12 per half module

Please direct any queries to fees@soas.ac.uk 

Master's Fee Bands 2019 -20

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