Imperial: the most expensive university in the country?

Was that Jon Matthews perchance? Oh well, people will get what they vote for...

Speaking to the Guardian already. Oh dear. And as well as it being *******s, working for less than 16 hours is actively encouraged by the Higher Education Minister himself as it gives students experience in a working environment which employers often value after graduation.

It is encouraged, but the advice is targetted at the "average student", Imperial's workload is a fair bit above the average. Personally, I think any part time work above 5 hours is going to be counter productive for an Imperial student, and 5 hours will earn you *******s not to mention noone will employ for such short hours. I think the majority of Imperial students realise that, hence what that VP guy was talking about holds very little truth, if any.

No, its was the other vice president.

Hah check out the Undergraduate International fees,
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/registry/finance/tuitionfees
My favourite is the faculty of medicine.

This thread is not talking about costs in terms of fees, those fees are fairly representative of medicine courses in the UK, especially at top universities. We're talking about living costs (accomodation, food, leisure etc).

It is encouraged, but the advice is targetted at the "average student", Imperial's workload is a fair bit above the average. Personally, I think any part time work above 5 hours is going to be counter productive for an Imperial student, and 5 hours will earn you *******s not to mention noone will employ for such short hours. I think the majority of Imperial students realise that, hence what that VP guy was talking about holds very little truth, if any.

Living costs won't be much different. As the OP said, any potential applicants should not be dettered by such rumours.

To be honest I am a little worried about the cost of going to "the most expensive Uni in the country"

Im working all summer to try and get a bit of cash together for my first year. And I might well try and get a job when im there too. Granted i could probably get through without working but one of the main reasons I chose London was because I thought it woud be a fun place to live. If I dont have the money to go out I may aswell be living somewhere boring but cheap

I think you've missed the point that people on this forum are trying to make. It really isn't as expensive as you might think, but only if you're careful. I usually go out to enjoy a few drinks with friends a couple of times a week. We usually go to the City which is quite expensive but then it depends on what kind of taste you have in alcohol (cognac: v. expensive, beer: not too bad) and what kind of place you like "chilling" in. Clubbing can be expensive but I'm not much of a clubber so I don't really know, but I certainly knew quite a few peolpe who went clubbing regularly and didn't seem to do too badly. If you're working all summer I'm sure you'll be able to get together about 2K and you can add another 2K from loans/grants for the 1st term alone, believe me you don't need 4K to get through 1 term, even if you like going out regularly.

Yeh, I understand that you can have a good time on just loans and grants. Im not complaining as such, i knew Imperial would be expensive. I just think i should try and get the whole 'London' experience in the first year. Im looking forward so much to having indie clubs and decent gigs everyweek, all just a tube ride away. Where I live now is just so lacking in those respects. Im hoping to raise maybe 1-2k. Ive got £800 already (but I'm blowing most of that on festivals actually ) its not like im going to work myself that hard for it, i just dont want to be in a situation where i could be having loads of fun but money problems stop me.