This field will capture the gross fee charged, that is before any financial support from the provider such as waivers are taken into account.

Compulsory for all students on either designated courses or where designation is held at provider level, and InstancePeriod.EXCHIND is 2 or 3. Not required for students submitted for UNISTATS.

The InstancePeriod.GROSSFEE returned should be the exact fee, e.g. £6,551 and not rounded.

If a student leaves the provider part the way through the instance year, the annualised amount for the course should be returned in InstancePeriod.GROSSFEE.

For instance periods which span HESA reporting years where it is not known which or how many modules the student will elect to take in HESA year two of the instance period, providers should return the fee based on modules started in the reporting year.

For instance periods which span HESA reporting years the full fee for the instance period should be returned in the reporting year within which the instance period commences.

Example: a one year full time MPhil course runs from October to October; the total cost of the course is £10,000.

For courses that run for more the one year and charge the fees up front, the fees should be divided between the course years.

Example: a two year part time postgraduate diploma course runs from October to October; the total cost of the course £12,000, which is charged up front.

For outgoing exchange students the GROSSFEE should be the fee that the student is being charged for that year.

For full year ERASMUS outgoing students the GROSSFEE should have no fees reported. For part year ERASMUS students the GROSSFEE should be returned with the fee that the student is being charged for that year.

Where a student repeats a term or semester in an additional year to the agreed structure of the course, provider should report the additional fee in GROSSFEE.

GROSSFEE is not required for incoming exchange students or dormant students.

Instances where the NHS (or another body) pays a per-capita charge equivalent to a fee should be recorded in GROSSFEE. However, where the NHS (or another body) pays a single fee that is not linked to an individual student then zero should be returned.

For Welsh domiciled students in the UK, the GROSSFEE should be the fee charged before the fee grant is applied.

A fee of £9,000 would be returned as 9000.

A fee of £7,545 would be returned as 7545.

To monitor the various fee levels, for example by subject, course type and student characteristics including their spread across the UK.