The vast majority of United Kingdom universities are government financed, with only five private universities (the charitable University of Buckingham and Regent's University London, and the for-profit institutions The University of Law,[REF] BPP University and Arden University[REF]) where the government does not subsidise the tuition fees.
Students living in the UK, if they are from a non-European country, have to pay the same very high fees as overseas students, even if they have been in the UK for more than 3 years, without indefinite leave to remain.