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Edinburgh University denies treating English students as a 'cash cow'

One of Scotland’s most eminent universities has denied treating English students as a “cash cow” despite offering them more places than their Scottish peers for the first time.

Edinburgh University has so far offered 4,996 English applicants a place, more than double last year’s total, after SNP ministers allowed them to charge school leavers from the rest of the UK £36,000 for a degree.


Although there has also been a large increase in the number of Scots offered a place, the English total is higher for the first time in the institution’s 429-year history.

The National Union of Students (NUS) said the figures showed the university was “shamefully putting profit before the interests of its students.”

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