Fees

This is a mandatory field for:

all undergraduate courses
postgraduate courses for Student Finance Northern Ireland (SFNI) students
postgraduate courses for Scottish students

You can only enter digits in this field. For full-time courses, enter the course fee per year. For undergraduate part-time courses, enter only one course fee.

You can enter fees for each course year over all domiciles or expand this section to make domicile-specific changes.

We'll already have entered your provider fee cap on CMS. You can enter fees up to this value.

Undergraduate fees

On the Provider page of CMS, you'll see an academic year specific provider fee cap for both full-time and part-time courses. We enter this fee cap for you.

You cannot enter any course fees that exceed your fee cap. The only exception is for an accelerated degree. When you enter the fee for an accelerated degree, CMS will let you add a fee of up to 1.2 times your fee cap.

At course level you can enter different fee caps for each domicile. This lets you manage fee variants. For example, Welsh and Northern Irish providers can manage their separate fee structures for students from different domiciles within one course.

By default, the system will apply the same fee rates across all domiciles. Deselect this option if you want to enter a different fee for a particular domicile.

You can also enter a course fee rate of zero for a particular year. This may be useful if you offer courses with a placement year.

You'll only need to enter one fee rate for part-time courses regardless of the duration selected. You can still enter different fee rates for each domicile if the course is split over multiple domiciles.

With the introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) from academic year 2017/18, providers that achieve TEF status can charge a higher fee amount than providers that do not.

It is at your discretion whether you apply the higher TEF fee amount to all course years for all students, or just to course year one for new students.

You can submit Fee Change of Circumstance notifications on the Student Information Service (SIS) for direct entry students who apply to a course year that has a lower fee amount than your provider fee cap.

Postgraduate fees

We pay Student Finance England (SFE) and Student Finance Wales (SFW) Postgraduate Master’s and Doctoral Loans directly to the student. Therefore, you do not need to enter the course fee rate on CMS.

When you add a course with a postgraduate master’s or doctorate funding level and select SFE or SFW, no course fee box appears on the course capture screen.

You need to enter a tuition fee when you set up a course with Northern Ireland Tuition Fee Loan funding. When you set up this type of course, you'll need to enter a fee rate per course year. This can be higher than your provider fee cap on the Provider page of CMS.

You need to enter a tuition fee when you set up a Scottish postgraduate course. If the course duration is more than one year, you should split the fees equally across the course years. The fee can be higher than your provider fee cap on the Provider page of CMS.