Curious About International Institutions

b_r_um
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:29:05 +0000

You are not easily going to be able to establish residency there as an international student - that would destroy the whole purpose of non-resident fees!

You can easily find the formal requirements for resident fees on the website of each university. For example, the University of Glasgow has a page titled [Fee Status](University of Glasgow - Study - Tuition fees) that refers you to this government website [here](UKCISA - international student advice and guidance).

You can read through the formal requirements but the gist of it is this: if you want to pay home or EU fees, you’d need to be an “ordinary resident” (not on a temporary visa) of the UK or an EU national, and you must have lived in Europe for at least 3 years before you start college. There are a few exceptions, e.g. for refugees, but you probably don’t qualify for any of those.

Jacobs University is a private university with no discounted fees for resident students.

The University of Sydney’s rules are much simpler: you are a domestic student for fee purposes if you are a citizen of Australia or New Zealand, or a legal permanent resident of Australia, and an international student otherwise. That’s explained in the [International Undergraduate Guide](http://sydney.edu.au/future-students/documents/international/undergraduate/Sydney-Uni-2013-International-Undergraduate-Student-Guide.pdf).