<p>This year, for a sciences degree or joint honors with a science course component, the university tuition was 11,800 GBP. The college fee (varies from college to college, but not that much) was 4730 P. Room and general college fees for my son were 2550 P - for a medium size single. Food is about 500P per term or 1500 P for the year. Books are much less expensive, because you can check them out from the university libraries or your college will often order a copy for you, so you don't have to buy many - we estimated 400 P for the year but that is high. Spending money depends on your lifestyle, but my son has been comfortable on about 50 P per week (9 weeks 0th through 8th per term, 27 weeks total) - say 1500 P per year. Then there is airfare - several trips per year, spring term more expensive - I estimate 800 P for airfare this year.</p>
<p>That comes to about $45000 per year total cost, at 1.94 USD/GBP, about the same as an expensive US private college. It is about $6000 less if you are in an arts course (e.g. English, history, etc.).</p>
<p>What helps the most in the overall degree cost is the three-year degree, as most courses are only three years long = $135K, varying with the exchange rate at the time you have to pay the big bucks. (International students have to pay tuition up front for the year in September - the first year the rate was 1.8, this year it was 1.86, next September is likely to be much worse, unless the US gets out of Iraq.)</p>
<p>As to cost/value ratio - high cost, but tremendous value - no question, you receive more than you paid for. A superb education with tons of personal attention, Oxbridge is alone in the world in the amount of faculty attention given to each student. It makes it much easier to write that check!</p>