Medicine fees 2020-2021

Tuition fees for undergraduate medicine in 2020-2021.

Changes to our degree

Tuition fees for Overseas/International students were restructured in 2017-2018. This happened due to the introduction of a fully-integrated six-year degree as well as an increase in National Health Service (NHS) teaching costs.

The new six-year degree includes the awards of:

  • Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours)
  • MBChB

NHS teaching costs

If you are an Overseas/International student studying at a Scottish medical school, you must make a contribution to the teaching costs of the NHS.

This is known as the ACT levy, and has applied since 2016-2017.

The University of Edinburgh subsidises this charge. The tuition fees published below are inclusive of the ACT levy cost.

Annual tuition fee increase

The tuition fees published below only apply if you are entering one of these years of study in 2020-2021.

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Tuition fees increase every year in the majority of cases.

If you intend to study over additional years, you should take this annual tuition fee increase into consideration when you estimate your fees for a degree.

 

2020-2021 fees

Fee status Home-Scotland/EU Home-RUK Overseas/International
Preclinical years 1, 2 and 3 £1,820 £9,250 £32,100
Clinical years 4, 5 and 6
£1,820  £9,250 

£49,900

Direct entry to year 4
£1,820  £9,250  £49,900

These fees apply if you are a continuing student studying the older five-year degree.

2020-2021 fees

Fee status

Home - Scotland/EU

 

Home - RUK

 
Overseas/ International - 2014 entry Overseas/ International - 2015 entry Overseas/ International - 2016 entry Overseas/ International - 2017 entry
Clinical years 3, 4 and 5
£1,820 
£9,000 

£45,400

£47,200 £49,600 £49,900