This page outlines fees and fee rules for current year students, including those continuing on a course of study in a subsequent year. If you're starting a new Masters course at Essex for the first time in 2025-2026, please refer to our applicant pages for fee information.
The fee bands and rates for new postgraduate research students studying in 2024-2025 academic year are listed below.
Please be aware that these are the general fee bands covering the majority of courses however there are some exceptions e.g. fees associated with placements and years abroad etc. Check out full list of tuition fees for the relevant academic year for more information
| School/Department | Home fee | International fee |
Biological Sciences | £10,000 | £21,700 |
Marine Biology | £11,550 | £22,400 |
| Essex Business School Economics | £14,300 | £22,400 |
| E15 Theatre Directing | £16,200 | £19,740 |
| E15 Acting | £18,400 | £21,700 |
| MBA | £25,000 | £25,000 |
| Grad Diploma | 66% of standard fee | 66% of standard fee |
| Grad Cert | 33% of standard fee | 33% of standard fee |
Part-time fees are calculated on a pro-rata basis from the course's full-time fee.
If you take a one-year Masters on a part-time basis over two years, you'll pay half of the course's fee in your first year. In your second year you'll pay half of the full-time fee for that year, which may by different to the fee in your first year due to the annual fee changes as explained below under Annual Fee Changes.
Students returning for a second or subsequent year of study will be notified of their tuition fees for the next year of study as part of the arrangements for Registration.
For continuing postgraduate taught students who started in 2017-18 or earlier, your fees will increase by 3% for each academic year of study.
For continuing postgraduate taught students who started in 2018-19 or later, your fees will increase by 5% for each academic year of study.
There are various organisations which might be able to help you with funding.