Am I Considered a Home Student?

With British citizenship you are certainly treated as a home student wherever you lived and however short you lived in the UK.


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With British citizenship you are certainly treated as a home student wherever you lived and however short you lived in the UK.


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Hi, I'm a Brit who's done undergraduate in a uni abroad and I've only just graduated. I'd like to take on postgrad back home in the UK but I'm not sure whether I apply to home fees or not, since I naturally haven't been resident in the UK for the past three years.

Please note that I have been spending all of my holidays during my period of study in the UK, in other words there hasn't passed a year without me having come to the UK at some point. I've also had my work experience done in the UK last year, and my UK bank account is active throughout the year. But naturally I've spent most of the year at my uni abroad.

Would I be eligible for home fees or am I going to have to dig out a gold mine?

Thanks.

I thought student finance don't fund post grad courses.

They don't, but the question is about fees and not Student Finance. Postgrad UK/EU and International fees for the same course can be very different.

Thanks for your reply, though I'd like to know where you got your info from, especially since almost all universities I've checked say you should have been resident in the UK for at least three years prior to the start of the course.

http://www.leedsuniversityunion.org.uk/helpandadvice/money/costofliving/#tuition fees

There are regulations that govern what fees should be set. It seems as if you are implying that you have only been abroad to study, if this is the case as another poster has pointed out you are still entitled to be classed as a home student as your absence was tempory due to you studying so should not count.

If you studied elsewhere in the EU it could also be classed as the right to roam but you shouldn't need to consider this based on the above.

Sources?

Knowledge and experience. If you want something online to back this up try the UKCISA website and search for fee regulations.

If you don't have sources to back up your claims what you said is just your opinion. ^^

When I've worked as a student money advisor within a university for the last 6 years, I don't always have the sources to hand at 1am on my Xmas holidays, especially when it's things I know. The answer I gave is correct and you will find info on the UKCISA website if you can be bothered to look, if you think I'm wrong can you be more specific as to why?

Fair enough. You see, sources are always requested because people have this horrible tendency of making things up.