2024 entry
Course and Tuition Fees Database
Overview
Price is a key driver of student recruitment and therefore understanding the tuition fee market is paramount during these unprecedented times. Drawing on our own experiences of setting tuition fees and conducting portfolio reviews, we have developed our Course and Tuition Fee Database that is the perfect fit for UK universities.
Get in TouchE2024 Database
S Squared Insights Limited are pleased to confirm our E2024 database – retaining all the benefits of our previous databases, plus exciting new features. Our Course and Tuition Fees Database is a comprehensive list of all UK undergraduate and postgraduate taught higher education courses, award types, granular subject groupings and primary data keys for seamless data integration. The following will be included in our 2024 edition at no additional cost, including three features first introduced by our product in 2022:
UG Entry Requirements
Database Primary Key
HECoS and CAH Groupings
New Course Identifier
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Detailed
Launching in 2020, our database was the first to introduce new metrics and fields to standardise fee data after listening to sector feedback.
This includes a comprehensive list of all course variants, course indexes to distinguish award levels and part-time variants, a primary key for seamless historic data integration, granular subject groupings (HECOS and CAH3), annualised fee conversion to standardise PGT fees and a new course identifier introduced in 2022.
Our database includes:
All UK Universities – Including UKPRN, INSTID, University Affiliate Group and Region
All UG Courses (Home and International Fees) – Including UCAS course code
All UG Course IELTS and A-Level entry requirements (no additional cost)
All PGT Courses (Home and International Fees)
Foundation, Bachelors, Masters, PGDip, PGCert and other awards
Full Time and Part Time course variants
On Campus, Blended and Distance Learning
Duration of Course
Unique identifiers including UKPRN, UCAS Course Codes, Database Primary Key to link to previous years
JACS Principal Subject, CAH3 and HECoS groupings for all courses
Fee Type Identified i.e. Annual vs. Total
Annualised fee included for all courses
Every variant of an individual course (e.g. Part Time, PGDip, PGCert and DL) to give complete picture of the landscape.
Course Index to identify parent courses and seamless integration into Business Intelligence tools
Timeframe
Our database is available three months earlier than is traditionally available to UK Universities, with updated releases available monthly from October. Subject to university fee publication date.
October
First database release of early publishers.
January
All Russell Group HEIs
March
All HEI providers
April
20 new, additional private HEIs
Our process
In order to deliver the detailed and timely solution that universities require to effectively conduct fee setting and portfolio reviews, our data science team deploy a 3 stage process to ensure data quality, accuracy and completeness.
Data Collection
Our data science led methodology allows is to collate detailed, accurate data.
Data Cleaning
We use a sophisticated data cleaning method to ensure data integrity and deliver consistent, usable datasets.
Data Checking
We introduce a variety of checking methods to identify outliers to continually adjust our collection methodology.
“The inclusion of the primary keys, and also having the historic data sets with primary keys, will be incredibly helpful in our processing of the data.”
University of Glasgow,
2022