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Brexit Threatens British University Dream for EU Students
- Uncertainty hangs over ‘home fees’ for autumn 2017 enrollments
- For some courses, EU students may face fees of 35,000 pounds
Students at Matriculation Ceremony 8, the Sheldonian, Oxford University
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For Fabienne Vicari, Brexit has made the prospect of sending her son to a U.K. university more remote.
Like thousands of parents in the European Union, the Italian-French mother of three living in Rome is confronting a potential byproduct of the U.K.’s vote to leave the 28-country bloc: the more than doubling of British university fees. After decades during which EU citizens studying at U.K. universities were charged “home fees,” or the same amount as their British counterparts, the Brexit vote may lump them with international students, whose annual tuition can go higher than 35,000 pounds ($46,000).