Swansea University

Swansea is a research university on the south Wales coast, with two campuses including one directly on the seafront, known for engineering, medicine, law, computer science and sports science. For a family comparing it against Scottish universities, the structural fact matters more than any fee table: a Welsh degree runs three years, not four. At the same annual fee that is roughly a third less tuition, plus a year of living costs and about GBP 776 of health surcharge not spent. An attestat holder who needs a foundation year faces four years here against five in Scotland. South Wales is also among the cheapest parts of Britain to live. Cardiff is routinely named among the more affordable British student cities and Swansea sits below it. On immigration, Wales is identical to England: the same visa, the same health surcharge, the same maintenance requirement, and outside London for the purposes of the maintenance rate.