Year abroad fees
Some undergraduate courses include a compulsory year abroad. These courses are indicated on the Fees, funding and scholarship search. A small number of undergraduate courses may also allow an optional year abroad.
The fee for the year abroad is determined by the following factors: whether your year abroad is compulsory or optional, the year you started your course, the duration of time spent abroad, and your fee status. The programmes of study which include a compulsory or optional year abroad are listed below.
From the 21/22 academic year onwards new students from the EU will be charged Overseas fees. For more information about fee status classifications please see the fee status page.
Compulsory Full Year Abroad - Humanities
The following programmes of study have a compulsory full year abroad element:
- Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Classics and Modern Languages
- English and Modern Languages
- European and Middle Eastern Languages
- History and Modern Languages
- Modern Languages
- Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Philosophy and Modern Languages
2025/26 Year Abroad University course fee rates for humanities students spending a compulsory full year abroad:
| Fee Status | Course fees* |
| Home | £1,385 |
| Overseas | £13,985 |
*The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undergraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.
Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.
Compulsory Full Year Abroad - Law
The following programmes of study have a compulsory full year abroad element:
Law (Jurisprudence) with Law Studies in Europe
2025/26 Year Abroad University course fee rates for law students spending a compulsory full year abroad:
| Fee Status | Course fees* |
| Home | £1,385 |
| Overseas | £13,985 |
*The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undegraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.
Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.
Optional Full Year Abroad
The following programmes of study have an optional full year abroad exchange available:
Engineering Science
2025/26 Year Abroad course fees rates for students spending an optional full year abroad:
| Fee Status | Course fees |
| Home | £1,385* |
| Overseas | Full course fees applies |
The figures above are supplied as a guide, based on the latest available information for students undertaking a year abroad in 2025/26. Fees will usually increase annually. For details, please see our guidance on likely increases to fees and charges.
*Home students must be studying for less than 10 weeks in Oxford in order to qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee (15% of the full course fees that apply in the year in which they are abroad). Please note that the government has not yet confirmed course fee information for full-time Home undergraduates starting courses in 2025, so this guide figure may change. Current university policy is to charge fees at the level of the cap set by the government, and the year abroad fees for Home undegraduates will therefore be calculated as 15% of the fee cap in place in 2025.
Optional Part Year Abroad
Overseas fee status students who are studying or working abroad, including those on a placement, for some or all of an academic year will be liable for the full course fees regardless of the length of time spent in Oxford.
Home students who have the option to spend part of the year studying abroad but who study at Oxford for 10 weeks or more of the academic year will be liable for the full course fees applicable to the year of study in question. This includes Medicine students undertaking their electives abroad. Home students studying for less than 10 weeks in Oxford will qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee as detailed in the 'Optional Full Year Abroad' section above.
Additional information for Turing students on a part year abroad
Home students who are eligible for Turing funding and are abroad for 30 weeks or more qualify to pay the reduced year abroad fee regardless of the length of time spent studying at Oxford during the academic year in question, in accordance with their UK government tuition fee loan entitlement.
