University enrolment for all official courses that are given in public universities in Spain are subsidised with public funds. How are enrolment prices set? Every year, the General Conference on University Policy, which comprises and is represented by all of Spain’s autonomous regions, approves the range for subsidised public prices for the coming academic year.
Once the minimum and maximum prices have been established, each autonomous region decides on the level that it will set its enrolment prices at within this range for the official university studies that it is responsible for.
What are the prices for 2008-2009?
First and second cycle prices
The agreement of 2 June 2008 of the General Conference on University Policy was published in the Spanish Official State Gazette on 12 June 2008, which set the limits of subsidised public prices for enrolment for studies to obtain official university qualifications for the 2008-09 academic year.
The lower limit is the result of increasing the official prices set for 2007-08 by the annual variation in the RPI since 30 April 2007 (4.2%). The supper limit is the result of increasing the lower limit by four percent. The updated range of prices from the previous year is therefore between 4.2% and 8.2%.
The price of the most expensive credit established by an autonomous region is €16.99/credit (€1,019 per course of 60 credits) and the cheapest is €8.41/credit (€504 per course).
Graduate courses
The new degrees have been implemented for the first time in the 2008-09 academic year in seven autonomous regions. The price of the most expensive credit established by an autonomous region is €21.88/credit (€1,313 per course) and the cheapest is €8.23/credit (€494 per course).
Postgraduate prices (master and doctorate)
The range of prices for postgraduate studies was agreed for the first time by the University Coordinating Board on 30 May 2006. Two means of payment were established. One method involves non-differentiated prices, which fall within a price range between €13 and €28/credit (and which has subsequently been updated by the change in the RPI). The other method is the differentiated price option, in which the agreement signed by all the autonomous regions states that “in exceptional cases prices may exceed the upper limit of €28/credit up to a maximum equivalent to 30% of the cost”.
Nevertheless, of the more than 1,500 official master courses being offered at Spanish public universities this year, less than 3% have a differentiated price higher than the maximum limit.
For the 2008-09 year, the most expensive non-differentiated price established by an autonomous region is €31.31/credit (€1,879 per course) and the cheapest is €13.86/credit (€832 for the course).
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