French University Fee Hike Leads to 15% Drop in Moroccan Student Applications

According to figures just released by Campus France, the platform that centralizes all registrations in the country, the number of bachelor’s degree applications has fallen by 15.5%.

Thus, there were 28,294 files received by this platform this year, down 10% from last year. In detail, Algerian students were 22.9% less likely to enroll, Vietnamese 19.7% less, and Tunisians 16.1% less.

Tuition fees do not seem to deter students from certain countries such as Senegal (+11.3%), Russia (+8.9%), China (+8.6%), Benin (+8.2%), or Mali (+5.6%).

To recall, the French government has launched the Attractiveness Strategy for Students which aims, it is sworn, to increase the number of students from 343,000 today to 500,000 in 2027, an increase of 46%. But this plan is accompanied by a 16-fold increase in tuition fees for the bachelor’s degree (2,770 euros compared to 170), 15 times for the master’s degree (3,770 euros compared to 243 in the master’s degree, and nearly 10 times for the doctorate (3,770 euros compared to 380 euros today).