Tuition Fees and Additional Costs

Tuition Fees and Additional Costs

This page sets out tuition fees charged by the School for the Academic Year 2024/25 as well as any additional course costs. A complete guide to fees and how they should be paid, as well as additional costs associated with individual courses, will be included along with your offer letter.

(Fees for Evening CoursesSummer Short CoursesDiplomasSaturday Youth TheatreBusiness Training Courses and Courses for Schools and Colleges are listed on those individual course pages).

Tuition fees for the 2024/25 academic year

New Undergraduate Year 1

The below costs are for year 1 study only. Costs for subsequent years are set prior to the following academic year.

Programme/DegreeHome studentsOverseas students
BA (Hons) Acting£9,250£25,200
BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice£9,250£25,200
BA (Hons) Theatre Practice£9,250£25,200

New Postgraduate Taught Year 1

The below costs are for year 1 study only. Costs for subsequent years are set prior to the following academic year.

Programme/DegreeHome studentsOverseas students
MA Acting£22,750£27,500
MA Acting for Screen£16,800£24,150
MA Actor Training and Coaching£11,550£22,050
MA Actor Training and Coaching (part-time)£5,775£11,025
MFA Actor Training and Coaching£11,550£22,050
MA Advanced Theatre Practice£16,800£24,150
MFA Advanced Theatre Practice£16,800£24,150
MA Applied Theatre£11,550£22,050
MA Applied Theatre (part-time)£5,775£11,025
PG Certificate Applied Theatre with Young People (part-time)£2,625£8,400
MA Creative Producing£11,550£22,050
MFA Creative Producing£11,550£22,050
MA Drama and Movement Therapy£11,550£22,050
MA Movement: Directing and Teaching£11,550£22,050
MA Movement: Directing and Teaching (part-time)£5,775£11,025
MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching£11,550£22,050
MA Musical Theatre: Acting and Performance£19,000£24,000
MA Scenography£11,550£22,050
MFA Scenography£11,550£22,050
MA Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching£11,550£22,050
MFA Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching£11,550£22,050
MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media£11,550£22,050
MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media (part-time)£5,775£11,025
MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media£11,550£22,050

Students continuing their studies into Year 2 of an MFA programme or the MA Drama and Movement Therapy course should consult the Tuition Fees for Continuing Students table below for an indicative fee. This is significantly different to the Year 1 fee and so students should plan their finances accordingly.

New Postgraduate Research

Postgraduate Research Full-time ProgrammesHome studentsOverseas students
Research Degree£4,786£17,850

Postgraduate Research Part-time Programmes

Home studentsOverseas students
Research Degree£2,393£8,925

Deposits

To officially accept a place at the School, offer-holders may be required to pay a non-refundable deposit. This requirement will be outlined on your offer notification, and the amount will be deducted from your fees at registration. The deposit must be paid in order to accept your place. 

The deposit is £1,000 for home postgraduate students, including EU nationals who have been granted settled status under the UK government’s EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). Irish citizens are automatically treated as Home students in the UK and do not need to have applied to the EUSS.

Overseas students – including EU nationals not resident in the UK at the time of application – will pay £2,000.

Home undergraduate students – again, including settled EU nationals – are not required to pay a deposit if they are receiving a tuition fee loan via the Student Loans Company, however evidence of loan approval may be requested. 

What fee will I pay?

We will assess your fee status prior to sending you an offer for a place on a course, and will request certain documents from you in order to do so. Please see below for some general guidance.

UK (Home Students)

UK nationals will usually pay the ‘Home student’ fee, where they are ordinarily resident in the UK. Students living in the Crown Dependencies (eg. Isle of Man or Channel Islands) are eligible for home fee status on the basis of 3 years’ residency in the UK or Islands.

If the course you are applying for at Central is an equivalent or lower qualification to one you already hold, then you will need to pay the ‘Overseas student’ fee as your status will be referred to as ELQ (Equivalent or Lower Qualification). For example, if you already hold a Masters qualification and are applying to study for another MA at Central. Certain students, such as those in receipt of Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) or those holding a PGCE as their highest qualification, are exempt from ELQ status.

Overseas

Students from outside the UK will normally be charged an overseas fee rate. This includes EU, EEA and Swiss nationals starting a course from Autumn 2022, who will no longer be eligible for ‘Home’ fee status. EU, EEA and Swiss nationals who started their courses before August 2021, however, will remain eligible for ‘Home’ fee status for the remainder of their studies.

Tuition Fees for Continuing Students 2023/24

Current students continuing their studies in 2023/24 will pay the following fees in that academic year. Please note, fees for subsequent academic years are confirmed prior to that academic year and so will vary from what is listed below.

Undergraduate Year 2 and 3

Programme/DegreeHome studentsOverseas students
BA (Hons) Acting Year 2£9,250£25,780
BA (Hons) Acting Year 3£9,250£24,900
BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice Year 2£9,250£23,417
BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice Year 3£9,250£23,191
BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Year 2£9,250£23,417
BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Year 3£9,250£23,191

Postgraduate Year 2

Programme/DegreeHome studentsOverseas students
MA Actor Training and Coaching (Part-time) Year 2£5,926£11,999
MFA Actor Training and Coaching Year 2£6,250£7,700
MFA Advanced Theatre Practice Year 2£6,250£7,700
MA Applied Theatre (Part-time) Year 2£5,410£11,490
MFA Creative Producing Year 2£6,250£7,700
MA Drama and Movement Therapy Year 2£3,397£5,786
MA Movement: Directing and Teaching (Part-time) Year 2£6,137£11,713
MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching Year 2£6,250£7,700
MFA Scenography Year 2£6,250£7,700
MFA Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching Year 2£6,250£7,700
MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media (Part-time) Year 2£5,615£11,836
MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media Year 2£6,250£7,700

Continuing Postgraduate Research Students

Postgraduate Research Full-time ProgrammesHome studentsOverseas students
Research Degree (any year)£4,712£17,000
Writing-up£600£600
Postgraduate Research Part-time ProgrammesHome studentsOverseas students
Research Degree (any year)£2,350£8,500
Writing-up£300£300

All fees shown are for students enrolled on the corresponding programme and year of study in 2023/24. Students studying subsequent years of their programme in 2024/25 (and beyond) can expect these figures to rise year-on-year. For undergraduate Home UK students, fees will be capped at a level set each year by the government. All other students’ fees are protected by maximum year-on-year fee increases of 5% above inflation (inflation being defined by the consumer price index in the preceding January). Fees for subsequent years of any programme will be confirmed prior to that academic year, and are payable before commencing that year of the programme. 

Additional costs

There may be some limited additional course costs not covered by the tuition fees for materials, equipment, or field trips required for your studies. Information regarding these additional costs can be seen below (PDF documents). You will also receive it with your electronic offer pack. Where a course requires a student to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the associated fee will normally be paid by the student.

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