Ulster University income international student income rises to £12m - BBC

Ulster University's (UU) income from tuition fees from planetary students has risen by much than 50% successful a year.

The assemblage received much than £12m successful fees from planetary students successful 2021-22, up from £7.7m.

The figures are contained successful the university's just-published fiscal statements for 2021-22.

The statements besides uncover UU's wide income roseate by £20m to astir £260m compared to the erstwhile year.

But similar Queen's University Belfast (QUB), UU has said it is "operating successful an situation wherever we person considerably little backing per pupil per year" than universities successful England.

Their fiscal statements said universities successful England received astir £9,143 successful backing per student, compared to £8,990 for universities successful Northern Ireland.

The section antecedently told BBC News NI it anticipated the 2023-24 fund presumption "will beryllium difficult."

About 15,000 unit and students usage the caller campus, with the bulk having moved from UU's Jordanstown tract successful County Antrim.

The university's fiscal statements for 2021-22 uncover that it has afloat drawn down a semipermanent indebtedness from the strategical concern committee of £158.6m towards the outgo of the Belfast campus.

That has to beryllium repaid by 2049 astatine an involvement complaint of 0.25%.

The bulk of UU's full income of conscionable nether £260m successful 2021/22 was made up of tuition fees, Stormont backing and income from probe grants for circumstantial projects.

That meant the assemblage had a surplus of £13.4m for the year.

Tuition-fee income roseate from astir £98m successful 2020-21 to much than £105m.

The assemblage said that maturation was "due chiefly to an summation successful pupil numbers from overseas" and an summation successful backing from the Department of Health towards aesculapian and healthcare pupil places.

International students typically wage overmuch higher fees than students from Northern Ireland who survey astatine UU.

While tuition-fee income from planetary students roseate to much than £12m, interest income from section students remained comparatively static astatine astir £62m.

The assemblage besides received much than £100m from Stormont, but immoderate of that wealth was utilized to wage for earmarked costs specified arsenic a caller postgraduate aesculapian schoolhouse and much wellness sciences courses astatine the Magee campus.

However, some QUB and UU person said they volition request an other 5,000 places for Northern Ireland students by 2030, owed to a projected emergence successful the fig of 18 and 19-year-olds.

The fig of section undergraduate students astatine some universities is capped by DfE and depends connected disposable funding.

The UU accounts besides authorities that the vice-chancellor Prof Paul Bartholomew earned £253,000 successful 2021-22 with an further £54,000 successful employer's pension contributions.

Eighteen different members of the university's 2,403 unit besides earned much than £100,000.