League ranking will reflect university fee levels
It is natural for Scotland’s older universities to wish to increase their fees to English students to the maximum permissible. However, it will be interesting to see the extent to which the rankings – and the movements up or down – impact on the range of fees charged. St Andrews is unlikely to suffer from the small slip in its ranking. It is highly popular with English applicants who take a broader view of the many attractions a university experience can offer.
It would also be invidious if fee-charge alone were to become the yardstick for measuring the qualities of a university. But at some stage, price must come to reflect some reconciliation of market supply and demand.