On average, English undergraduates paid just under £6,000 in annual tuition fees in the 2013-14 year, after the government’s decision to triple maximum fees, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD). This is the highest average undergraduate fee in the industrialised world.
Some universities in England, including Durham and Manchester, have started telling potential students that their tuition fees will go up across the board from next year, the first rise since fees were nearly trebled to £9,000 in 2012.
Eight OECD countries have no tuition fees for full-time undergraduate students at public universities, in more than half of the other countries with relevant data, annual fees are £1,300 or more. This, however, is for people from the same country, with international students generally charged more.
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