EU/Overseas quotas for Medicine A100

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Dear Queen Mary University of London,

Following the government's announcement after Brexit, since the EU students will now have to pay the same tuition fees as Overseas students when starting university in 2021, does that mean that the EU students will also come under the quota of Overseas students, which is capped at 7% by the government (meaning higher competition)? Or does this simply mean that the EU students will have a different fees structure, but they will fall under the same quota as before—being counted with Home (UK) students?

I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Kunika Khandelwal

QM FOI Enquiries, Queen Mary University of London

FOI 2020/F366
 
Dear Kunika Khandelwal,
 
Thank you for your email of 15th September.
 
For undergraduate Medicine (MBBS) and Dentistry (BDS) programmes there are
Government restrictions on international students to ensure that we are
training and retaining doctors in the U.K. This essentially means that we
have 24 places for Overseas students across our A100 and A101 programmes
and 4 for the BDS. This does not apply to any other Queen Mary programme.
 
Your enquiry is more about Government policy than Queen Mary policy and,
as at the time of your request, we are not sure whether EU/EEA applicants
will be part of the Overseas student quota for MBBS and BDS. We are
awaiting clarification but if they are counted within the current quotas
then it will become harder for an EU student to gain entry to the A100
programme if they are classified as an Overseas student for fee paying
purposes.
 
We believe that EU students will almost certainly pay Overseas tuition
fees for 2021/22 entry and will therefore fall within the Government
quota.
 
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Yours sincerely
 
Paul Smallcombe
Records & Information Compliance Manager
 

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