Veterinary science is the most expensive subject to teach, with costs reaching almost ?20,000 per full-time student, according to the Financial Sustainability Strategy Group’s report The Sustainability of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in England.
Clinical medicine and dentistry cost about ?15,000 and ?16,000 respectively. Meanwhile, laboratory-based subjects including physics, engineering and chemistry are around the ?10,000 mark.
Social studies, humanities and language-based studies, education, and business and management are among the cheapest subjects to teach, with an average annual cost to universities for each full-time student of about ?6,000 to ?7,000.
The average fee for a bachelor’s degree, after all financial support from universities is included, was just under ?8,000 in 2013-14.