Internationals students who are planning to take admission in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is set to became costlier as the varsity has increased the fee for all its courses from 6 to 54% for the upcoming academic session.

AMU has at least 800 international students on its rolls, A Urza, president of International Students Association of AMU stated ‘’the hike is unreasonable and must of us cannot afford it. During the COVID-19 pandemic many of us have not been able to go back home. And in such a situation the administration’s move to hike the fee is unreasonable. We come here only because the fee structure is reasonable. The university should reconsider the decision’’.

Under the new augmentation of fee regime, the application fee for foreign students has been increased from $70 to $100 while admission fee have been augmented from 6 to 54% depending on the course.

For B.Tech course, the fee has been raised from $2600 to $4000 per annum. For BA (Hons) it has been raised from $925 to $1200, besides an additional $500 which will be charged for two consecutive years. According to AMU’s examination controller Mujib Ullah Zuberi the foreign fee augmentation has been done after more than a decade.

He stated ‘’it is still less than what is being charged by JNU and Jamia Millia University. The decision was taken to ‘rationalize’ the fee structure as NRI students were paying more. Meanwhile representation given by international students regarding the fee structure is under consideration and administration will look into it’’.

The move is likely to affect student coming from war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Iraq who are already facing enormity of economic collapses.