Student funding

Cousin of mine (EU national even if he is growing up in India) wants to do an MBA here. Is there a guide for criteria/fee structure (its been a long time since I was in lol education) that is really useful? I am looking through Student Awards Agency for Scotland (although its highly doubtful he would get anything from there as they would look down upon the fact he has not had a period of residence here).

Part of me is thinking he should stay in India and do it. Probably just as many opportunities and business roles but I understand he would want to do something international (Kebab shops on a Friday night in England sure is attractive huh?) Probably stands out a bit more from the herd.

Any help/jokes appreciated.

by 'here' you mean the UK?

or specifically Scotland

UK yeah. Includes Scotland.

Generally they go on 'domicile' which is where you usually live, as opposed to what it says on your passport (I may be wrong, as the definition of 'where you're FROM' varies depending on whether you're talking about tax, bank accounts, study, and what country you're in...). So if not domiciled in the UK or EU, student support (fee loans) will be minimal if anything, and he'll likely be subject to a full international fee (although this may be the same as 'home' students for an MBA).

Fees are charged by the institution so worth looking at a couple of potential courses at specific institutions - the info on their website will be more useful than generic Fees & Awards regs

this might be useful
http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/International-Students/Fees--finance/Home-or-Overseas-fees/England-Higher-Education/

Yeah what it looks like is that you need a period of residence here, and even then support is minimal etc.

Thanks for the link.

MBAs are a strange kind of thing and fees are nominally excessive even for UK ppl; as kinder says there may not be much difference.

Quick google suggests that MBAs cost about £40k no matter where you're from.

MBA costs are nuts all over the world. I'd probably be tempted to do one at Smurfit (where it's about €30,000) or one of the highly ranked Central European universities where the living costs are lower. Actually, I'd probably look at the two-year distance-learning Euro MBA from Kozminski in Warsaw but as that has six residential weeks split over the course of the two years, that wouldn't be much use to someone based in India.

In terms of VFM and quality of education, I'm not sure he could beat IIM Ahmedabad.