Universities Changing Tuition Fees in Response to Coronavirus

Updated March 21, 2021 Updated March 21, 2021

The coronavirus crisis has led to a complete upheaval in the higher education world, with both classes and assessment shifting online for the remainder of the academic year in most cases. There have been calls for tuition fees to be reduced (or even cancelled), which has caused significant debate among both students and faculty. Some universities are, however, responding to these calls by making changes to their tuition fees.

At TopUniversities, we are constantly adding to our dedicated student coronavirus hub, so you can keep up-to-date with all the news that might affect your studies, from the UK government’s official policy on tuition fees to tips on how to stay happy and healthy when studying from home.

You can find out which 85 universities around the world who have made tuition fee changes in the table below:

Universities with Tuition Fee Changes
QS World University Ranking 2020	Institution	Location
6	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
50	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	Netherlands
114	University of Groningen	Netherlands
146	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
170	University of Rochester	United States
183	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
189=	Texas A&M University - Commerce	United States
223	University of Antwerp	Belgium
314=	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
314=	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom
326	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States
327	Virginia Tech	United States
328	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom
340=	University at Buffalo	United States
359=	Stony Brook University	United States
398=	Wake Forest University	United States
424=	Flinders University	Australia
454=	University of California, Riverside	United States
460	University of Maryland Baltimore	United States
468=	Brandeis University	United States
477	Singapore Management University	Singapore
501-510	University of Texas at Dallas	United States
511-520	Iowa State University	United States
561-570	Drexel University	United States
581-590	University of Pavia	Italy
591-600	Blanquerna - Universitat Ramon Llull	Spain
601-650	University of Oregon	United States
601-650	University of Bradford	United Kingdom
651-700	University of Denver	United States
651-700	University of Houston	United States
651-700	Louisiana State University	United States
651-700	Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis	United States
651-700	Stevens Institute of Technology	United States
651-700	University of Plymouth	United Kingdom
651-700	Samara University	Russia
651-700	Charles Darwin University	Australia
701-750	University of Wyoming	United States
701-750	Georgia State University	United States
751-800	Loyola University Chicago	United States
801-1000	University of New Hampshire	United States
801-1000	University of Salford	United Kingdom
801-1000	Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan	Poland
801-1000	University of New England (Armidale)	Australia
--	Portland State University	United States
--	Loma Linda University	United States
--	National University (San Diego)	United States
--	Montana Tech of the University of Montana	United States
--	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	United States
--	Emporia State University	United States
--	Minneapolis College of Art & Design	United States
--	Concordia University, St. Paul	United States
--	Saint Louis University (Missouri)	United States
--	Southeast Missouri State University	United States
--	University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee	United States
--	Saginaw Valley State University	United States
--	Le Moyne College	United States
--	SUNY Maritime College	United States
--	Assumption College	United States
--	Royal Roads University	Canada
--	Seneca College	Canada
--	University of Suffolk	United Kingdom
--	University of Sunderland	United Kingdom
--	Waterford University of Technology	Ireland
--	IGS - RH Institut de Gestion Sociale	France
--	Ecole Centrale de Lyon	France
--	University of Madeira	Portugal
--	Thomas More (Mechelen)	Belgium
--	Utrecht Summer School	Netherlands
--	VU Amsterdam Summer School	Netherlands
--	University of Iceland	Iceland
--	Bauhaus University Weimar	Germany
--	CODE University of Applied Sciences (Berlin)	Germany
--	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi	Italy
--	The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design in Wroclaw	Poland
--	University of South Bohemia (USB) in Ceske Budejovice	Czech Republic
--	BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences	Austria
--	Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences	Hungary
--	American College of Greece	Greece
--	Cyprus Science University	Cyprus
--	European University Cyprus	Cyprus
--	Mykolas Romeris University	Lithuania
--	Turiba University	Latvia
--	Dalarna University	Sweden
--	Nazarbayev University	Kazakhstan

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Julia is the Assistant Editor for TopUniversities, publishing articles for students and graduates across the world. A native Londoner, she holds an MSc in Marketing Strategy & Innovation from Cass Business School and a BA in Classical Studies & English from Newcastle University.