Undergraduate year abroad fees
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Undergraduate year abroad fees

Some undergraduate courses include a compulsory or optional year abroad. The fee for the year abroad is determined by the following factors: whether your year abroad is compulsory or optional, the year you started your course, the duration of time spent abroad, and your fee status.

The programmes of study which include a compulsory or optional year abroad are listed below. If you are not sure whether your year abroad is compulsory or optional, you should contact your department or college.

For any other questions about your fee liability whilst studying abroad, please contact the Student Fees and Funding team at [email protected] to verify your fee liability.  If your fee status is Home or EU and you are unsure about your UK government support entitlement during the year in which you are completing a period of study abroad, please contact the Student Fees and Funding team at [email protected] for further guidance. 

Compulsory Full Year Abroad - Humanities

The following programmes of study have a compulsory full year abroad element:

Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Classics and Modern Languages
English and Modern Languages
European and Middle Eastern Languages
History and Modern Languages
Modern Languages
Modern Languages and Linguistics
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Philosophy and Modern Languages

2024/25 Year Abroad University course fee rates for humanities students spending a compulsory full year abroad:

Fee Status

Course start date 2020/21 

Course start date 2021/22 to 2022/23 inclusive

Course start date 2023/24 to 2024/25 inclusive

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385£1,385£1,385
Overseas£11,465£12,620£13,110

2025/26 Year Abroad University course fee rates for humanities students spending a compulsory full year abroad:

Fee Status

Course start date 2020/21

Course start date 2021/22 to 2022/23 inclusive

Course start date 2023/24 to 2024/25 inclusive

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385*£1,385*£1,385*
Overseas£12,235£13,465£13,985

Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.

*The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undegraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.

Compulsory Full Year Abroad - Law

The following programmes of study have a compulsory full year abroad element:

Law (Jurisprudence) with Law Studies in Europe

2024/25 Year Abroad University course fee rates for law students spending a compulsory full year abroad:

Fee StatusCourse start date 2020/21 to 2022/23 inclusiveCourse start date 2023/24 to 2024/25 inclusive 

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385£1,385
Overseas£11,465£13,110

2025/26 Year Abroad University course fee rates for law students spending a compulsory full year abroad:

Fee Status

Course start date 2020/21 to 2022/23 inclusive

Course start date 2023/24 to 2024/25 inclusive

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385*£1,385*
Overseas£12,235£13,985

Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.

*The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undegraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.

Optional Full Year Abroad 

The following programmes of study have an optional full year abroad exchange available:

Engineering Science – The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Princeton University
Materials Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2024/25 Year Abroad University course fee rates for students spending an optional full year abroad:

Fee StatusCourse start date 2016/17 or later

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385
OverseasFull course fee applies

 * Home/EU and Islands students must be studying for less than 10 weeks in Oxford in order to qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee. 

2025/26 Year Abroad University course fee rates for students spending an optional full year abroad:

Fee StatusCourse start date 2016/17 or later

Home

(and EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier)

£1,385*
OverseasFull course fee applies

 * Home/EU and Islands students must be studying for less than 10 weeks in Oxford in order to qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee. The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undegraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.

Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.

Optional Part Year Abroad

Overseas fee status students who are studying or working abroad, including those on a placement, for some or all of an academic year will be liable for the full course fee regardless of the length of time spent in Oxford.

Home students (or EU/Islands if started course in 2020 or earlier) who have the option to spend part of the year studying abroad but who study at Oxford for 10 weeks or more of the academic year will be liable for the full course fee applicable to the year of study in question. This includes Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry students completing their research projects abroad and Medicine students undertaking their electives abroad. Such students studying for less than 10 weeks in Oxford will qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee as detailed in the 'Optional Full Year Abroad' section above. 

Additional information for Turing students on a part year abroad

Home students who are eligible for Turing funding and are abroad for 30 weeks or more qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee regardless of the length of time spent studying at Oxford during the academic year in question, in accordance with their UK government tuition fee loan entitlement.